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Weekly digest - March 11, 2013
news about the myriad messages about health care interventions flooding Americans
daily
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I'll be in Boston this week to lead a workshop [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001epkjfSI4GDAirb1erja5NhvREpXiGyw17V3LZUManylS8x1QxuIdaPJIAltAhuXbdwCcWAbyEqNgxBSCSkeyGcR615q71vICAowI_BfyoRbFDDVLmiEU0JMAus0C7DtK0LfegtBR4PGm2BhBm3OE4c-F6qoGDx0-fT4osk_iWNQ=]
on reporting on medical research (12:45 pm Thurs.) at the Association of Health
Care Journalists annual conference.
And I'll moderate a panel discussion Wed. night, "Shared Decision Making Along the
Continuum of Care [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001epkjfSI4GDCMcnG4XCAd01dzF-qrx-oRCONXmA0PVdzq-3QBNsnVlO8tnAryHmLs2-558zyo97IS4KqYb0JUv8rlXHhsGtjbxsLDGdk9ogjTp5zaQwG6ci2d8aVGU-mzwE56TZrItGbxKgwHmzKDjUx2w4QsVc1UJ07nRynXuXhmIZ6yIzw7f_ewzLUADarDEbv0v_oWafZU7r3JpD1AkfDsizcdou6_MsxKbBjnInY=],"
hosted by the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, which sponsors this
project.
Last week provided many lessons on health care news. One of the most striking came
from the American College of Cardiology, which plugged our work.
In an unusual move, the ACC published a news release that raised "serious concerns"
about a study to be discussed at its upcoming meeting, and concern about "how the
study could be hyped" by journalists. [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001epkjfSI4GDCJ90FdkDM9jjYE-dIW6jkz-vAV3-c93WRG9WZCAsv9_6qClZIAeqY3gmtPQJ91IzQ8TowR_K4ycEgGHVLp1ycIWXVW8Af6KBvCnZurMasuC1ayUZsNzlxOhQ9Fpjg1WoZKb7ADcy1yiqmdumY0eUzrCu8lZYUHdmdfce79hDnybvYcxVnLtk4FN8ifnnGRYszx3TW-LVzf2ydbTpPM3hNXTn1jqaJfpJU=]
So, in effect, it was a rare (unique?) news release that questioned whether or
how a story should be covered. Read about another oddity from this ACC conference
[http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001epkjfSI4GDCfVY2xkVUTMRSbPW8r44ZsY0y1jpc9GKJsV3pxv8oEyd8TGG4Xn952YECMATUC-8pKLhhvDsc-uuR7bVDSzktvEjSdP6gGb6im_7gkzMjVELBIUDR2mR8oKIN4b3YgujanXTGcw4pklw6FWDVdoQAheiXJOUCoL4OW-mK74OkD5YI0UEMOHRhojpRymO6-PTh8Ksr9poJD9C5NwyLLjIbru9cRk40JXD-zOqYRF8SbRDI6jeBAPDOVlQYeBGw1BtY=]
that demonstrates the tangled mess that can occur in the way health care news is
disseminated.
We also wrote about how a journal editor - Dr. Elizabeth Loder of the BMJ - called
for a "quarantine of groundbreaking studies about new treatments." [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001epkjfSI4GDCQUlicyEvX9IZqrf-c7iyQi2-JdmZQowCX3UAYsa9Gn-XpeDXv5HJsUOfHWi4nHN2lzqyYbQl9pPrl2MQ6mD9PyYVHUSWojWrggNHZt76UNYJCZz4qCpiTuA4GIvEbbMlN4EqR01iYPwlqf9gj_BdaH6ZoMh82wd9gqzqiTDfpir_VCzKBf8D94oX2a3XAusxSaZ_q_tfqNncHX-IQp-WvsX9u2ntqGrNmWaX2M5GV8TtirygOB7o_]
We updated our years-long look at the problems with health news briefs [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001epkjfSI4GDDvUC3uofYhIVcxksTjzSEGEHov2a8SWqoim_qprckgjOXLwK7c1k2VsPECrJIVWPRsYYNz0KO05LL3gOkWUSXWXSEuWkKJFLIVxcbR-CvDvVO8OOvjstDXIKSvwaTy5LbkWvQ9qQYiLUSQOTOSEWdGdzuJwYi7vZE36qYCZSzZbXT-sbTDEd5zpwWQEqkY-2AmPoJm6WnPmDAabXD9Xalb]
- generally stories of fewer than 300 words.
We looked at the very different framing of two stories on the same psoriasis drug
study [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001epkjfSI4GDABmwI3Gp39xvCOoojoRK-5WJS_C7qR4Uftfu9T13opiSgHwZXzN1yczCrl27unMP9CySFxc42CX40bs3IJsHdPnn3E-mwdS_aUGb_aCyELf51-PIFE3YdAQRDiBorIkDoczPHE-CR2YH2UVVydJohd_a8zN_OhI2ZBvgQQjk7USbarPTLV7yG6bNcdv9CalZVlBjoHMI7f9ByuqmBToYTcDN5aY0vmFdQ=]:
one saying the data clear the way for the company to file for approval, the other
saying the "result could damp home for the drug's market potential."
We looked at how
9 different sources covered what was probably the week's most-covered story [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001epkjfSI4GDD5EAiRFDKtp63qleCUKixaiUTZzmQk-XtrOvJFtsKCZeVzGalpij3N0BR2UN2g5P3leNgEJyjbmh23UvTia5xl5r2RezzHkZsud8O3CHpH6pFjQ-i9PC8xTjsfjbtaEy9z5I1am3L8U1zpoMfLgCAvfOzV7naxRdD9udkfKbR28RYuZVuFxA0IWJa1gTc0Jxfn8iuCDMu56x5ArU4llhRjeDwcnQ_XPULUrxk2k-0KLhkmgEzz75wmk-SMW5JavWk=]
- the Mississippi baby pronounced "functionally cured" of HIV infection. Many included
important caveats and perspectives - quite different from this TIME headline.
Finally, for anyone who wants to become smarter about learning how to evaluate evidence,
I highly recommend these two books by physician-authors Margaret McCartney and Marya
Zilberberg [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001epkjfSI4GDC5LfGaecIwaBfmiKp8E1wI87Yu7dgcQMH-KB_dXZEYtWpo822K_HOiQvg9k_sRqX2swxgoJurd6QjPiszrR77lomdTLb3y7uJR3V3TxRa7DsCexJG3zGOOlMv8i0JH4PMlj3knbmXCbQl2iLHlKpykZtWpv6dY5n6Qp4rnGymNGg6BfHC34dLGT6dmni8uMznGUYIdrrZA_mll_MO4QBGW].
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How well did these stories address our 10 criteria?
Small trial shows "brain pacemaker" may ease severe anorexia [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001epkjfSI4GDBKjWKRabP4X-1PBy1c9OI57FvHIynJ-0wqdCHuKroM8Gywmz6PThy_sYDV9KmZ7x9zWUbi7YXphYWg9CppUdWcLkdULviddUTpgaPSGUO0f18ljORnrwPF3IYRcMFTrgZjuo3a8_E2R2JFmufvWdJPoHnmfdRtzX-3PhnDqrHJ1bhAKqyqCqdADqHlFiI7P4fE3QiqW22c6yUFPCPHsPj7]
Unwarranted leaps of faith were taken from a preliminary safety trial in just 6
people.
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Drugs May Help Relieve Restless Legs Syndrome [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001epkjfSI4GDC2LWDd2p003_DM6uVVEwWMtjCQl2EgxzUximm7Kk8OWMyHjq7uDUHGzLK-lZFg60KG_pTjLv5lNOFTQCKMCQDh6picBgfkg9dhg3rqtPMg21kYAX26vPFdJFxxCR5UnjEEtL8vP-W_s7jq_92hxkBOQpHv1a9iAVqZkFLQs5shL2nawvbxcohYpvvCuEo-yY8=]
The story could have provided more helpful context about potential benefits of
the drugs in question. But the story's warning about the potential for disease-mongering
in this area was especially salient.
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