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TV station should stop promoting questionable screening tests at MN State Fair 26 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
This is the third year I’ve written about questionable screening test promotions presented by Minneapolis TV station KARE-11 at the Minnesota State Fair. In 2011: What kind of informed decision-makin...
“Amazing Medicine: Cures and Quackery” – MPR at the Minnesota State Fair 23 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
I love the Minnesota State Fair. And this year I have a new reason to attend. Minnesota Public Radio has invited me to appear live on an hour-long program tomorrow – Saturday, August 24 – from no...
“A reality check on the banal puffery” of hospital website marketing 23 Aug 2013 | 02:20 am
On the HealthLeaders Media website, Cheryl Clark writes, “It’s Judgment Day for Hospital Websites.” She calls it “a reality check on all of this banal puffery.” Excerpts: “This week, the employer-b...
Medscape asks: “Robotic Surgery: Too Much, Too Soon?” 22 Aug 2013 | 09:33 pm
On Medscape, an editor and a surgeon published a slide show series entitled “Robotic Surgery: Too Much, Too Soon?“ (You need to register in order to see it). Some excerpts: Is Insufficient Trainin...
Selling the Cyberknife on WCCO’s CBS HealthWatch 22 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
I’m watching local news on my local CBS affiliate, WCCO, the other night. And I wake up from the daze of crime and creampuff stories to see that there’s a story about the Cyberknife “radiosurgery” sy...
ICYMI: another association ≠ causation case with labor induction & autism risk 21 Aug 2013 | 11:16 pm
If more voices joined in to explain the limitations of observational studies, maybe we could have a reverse Tinker Bell effect. “Clap loud enough and Tinker Bell will come back to life!” Maybe if we...
A “silver bullet” cancer drug…for 5 mice, that is! 21 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
In its September issue, Prevention magazine – in its “Need to Know: Medical Breakthroughs” section – has this headline: Silver Bullet Cancer Drug Set to Begin Clinical Trials The brief story that fo...
Scary coffee stories – add cream and two lumps of caveats 20 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
Put Down That Coffee. It Might Be Killing You. That was an actual headline from a story the other day about a paper published online first by Mayo Clinic Proceedings pointing to an association – no...
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation — a must-read book 19 Aug 2013 | 10:45 pm
It is ironic that within a week after reading Dan Fagin’s book, “Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation,” I saw a TV replay of the movie, “A Civil Action,” starring Jon Travolta, cast as Jan Sch...
Back to school anti-vaccination woo 3 Aug 2013 | 02:17 am
We’re already seeing back-to-school shopping specials – even though it’s just the second day of August. And we’re already seeing some anti-vaccination campaigns getting in full gear as well, reflecti...
