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Weekly digest - May 27, 2013
news about the myriad messages about health care interventions flooding Americans
daily
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Our 3rd "whom to believe?" medical research story example this month
We don't make this stuff up. Depending on which news sources you believe [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i_uTF0HjC6OYQwDyDz0H22BH7Ev8ljvulqi6AaTfWGM0PA9WBBU87zSjEresgzPeLEC3IvjMJLkSofO3lU4KVeQtdw3rAYLnHYKAUDPAWqHBWfPkUPeYTLUAplSn5nN0wXDR2MZ33N1k_ipBj1LegEN5agYofREZ-i_KJMvvMcGe9HQbq_92-fHOudAy-N_QVg=],
new Alzheimer's drug research:
* Showed prior claims to be "a flop"
* Showed the drug "may be the answer...may be a breakthrough"
* Rejected earlier claims
* Verified those claims
Some of the competing, conflicting framing appeared in different articles posted
by the same news source!
Read it and weep. [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i_uTF0HjC6OYQwDyDz0H22BH7Ev8ljvulqi6AaTfWGM0PA9WBBU87zSjEresgzPeLEC3IvjMJLkSofO3lU4KVeQtdw3rAYLnHYKAUDPAWqHBWfPkUPeYTLUAplSn5nN0wXDR2MZ33N1k_ipBj1LegEN5agYofREZ-i_KJMvvMcGe9HQbq_92-fHOudAy-N_QVg=]
IMRT story comparison [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i9GMYxvl0NHVXxrLlEUF3bz-Wka1aTicKqueSzdUYcFeXk-4a0gnrON56QtIDd-OMXnCc_JyLgUyFCApnME2UUnQCxhSycODNGyMjowudAxoz1RuLS4MkagzdF-Cuy08rpXBriZSINGiosxdcdWaeHy]
There's been a great deal of enthusiasm for new radiation therapies like IMRT (intensity-modulated
radiation therapy) or proton beam - some of it from enthused journalists. News this
week may have dampened that a bit [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i9GMYxvl0NHVXxrLlEUF3bz-Wka1aTicKqueSzdUYcFeXk-4a0gnrON56QtIDd-OMXnCc_JyLgUyFCApnME2UUnQCxhSycODNGyMjowudAxoz1RuLS4MkagzdF-Cuy08rpXBriZSINGiosxdcdWaeHy],
although we didn't see an update from the CBS story of one year ago [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i9TkFKYs8fL8gk0T9AXGqHhP5a3vlF80fUCRbeH34IEwIPDUwVzrY8fkbsxJlQ9gaEmNzc9AcOPyc-wP8g4lZOG0aVqEYzefFm2W3ZRYiztX5A0orX6lhixQx0NCgIbOV5YeGfab-enjz1NkVQVQgy_UBIsEPIEqpyKuIYR8jtag-tDqlt0xLwNUU99PBMsWQrgFshmix9TiIu9iWKT2yfuxp1rd9euZbw9T67HK0R-c2ZWXVJ9zt0O].
I'll help lead a webinar discussion - "Separating Hype from Hope: Breast Cancer
Media Literacy [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i9FToBOldXKHeJx1fpMj390kN8ympvg_k3RmDDS6BPKwB3dLKXqDKuwEmV_eXWBqxhtXUCXwMRXvhX98IRPPxeFumaRXydhF6kM_cNi8UlundSFnYNOvJD1S8TzGHZ34pXbVpC6NkjamA==]"
- for Breast Cancer Action this week - May 29 and 30. I'll be joined by Mandy Stahre,
PhD, one of our story reviewers and one who faced breast cancer in her 30s.
diabetes screening bus ad [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i-FqQOGtP88hQmmbIVO0R6esxGbPyRvAhRHMsOYuc3ze3UyFpqPgksWPrCK-_KSYdHrWrsrl7ETxuO66hifVpRk39GuowVuL0nMDvLKFNzWLjiAsAXKyfrjuHJTanHSWB9jg2XDOY2mEjV-hwBSn-CNsAyow-TUudQuVDtFKsAqlQydgIhfQ9F2LDaRbL8JC5qbDrWBV0psO57FW5q2hDlpMYxhTzygzFY=]
Dr. Margaret McCartney was irritated by ads [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i-FqQOGtP88hQmmbIVO0R6esxGbPyRvAhRHMsOYuc3ze3UyFpqPgksWPrCK-_KSYdHrWrsrl7ETxuO66hifVpRk39GuowVuL0nMDvLKFNzWLjiAsAXKyfrjuHJTanHSWB9jg2XDOY2mEjV-hwBSn-CNsAyow-TUudQuVDtFKsAqlQydgIhfQ9F2LDaRbL8JC5qbDrWBV0psO57FW5q2hDlpMYxhTzygzFY=]
she saw on the side of buses in Glasgow (where she lives) promoting screening but
not divulging that it was part of a clinical trial recruitment effort. She wrote,
took action, and got some results.
Carl Elliott [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i9O8dHGhp6Zc6QNwFIvD9NauV4Xh63ochv2b_JBTg3URMyTAbHaZOpXpymRGlYqrOB4B7zO2DUVfU-P5gVukYhsUiBcaEw1FFSJZNW9nlhobS2Xo7ItbiRQcjInSixbHJjcXtxZbvlpCrMY4wQdtp-bXSoQpi95Pkt5nmPxW9WJTEf6PB8dDyQpTlaSHhXF6pfebz3BIX0i2I3DwwkfZurLy0L1TWUt7p8=]
We published a guest post by Dr. Carl Elliott [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i9O8dHGhp6Zc6QNwFIvD9NauV4Xh63ochv2b_JBTg3URMyTAbHaZOpXpymRGlYqrOB4B7zO2DUVfU-P5gVukYhsUiBcaEw1FFSJZNW9nlhobS2Xo7ItbiRQcjInSixbHJjcXtxZbvlpCrMY4wQdtp-bXSoQpi95Pkt5nmPxW9WJTEf6PB8dDyQpTlaSHhXF6pfebz3BIX0i2I3DwwkfZurLy0L1TWUt7p8=],
a professor in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. He's pursued
a psychiatric drug trial suicide case for years, and urges journalists to do fact-checking
- not just transcription - when reporting on this case.
We wrote about a journal article that warned about biases in pharma-funded mental
health websites [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i-JgmcuGtwK8Yd8Rbt0JwzSBtKGVdV6Rjc1I_LTmWBTJiN-U6OLDQVNaXosW_iUgYn0HL9PmS2iJzvMcodzhHjHNZQHawd2ElDq5fj8zFFPbBOHZzpZHhZiTye9qHGDuBCc0dBqe_X0Z9Uu0h3c7nraTGfuebzabisRmT73SFja15yYfWV2C668s-y7ww9Y_yVJj7ArE17-9oCnTakaiG6z].
And we also took time for a laugh - with "Dr." Stephen Colbert's "Cheating Death"
update [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i9-bZyWquMX60P64iM9_h6TZoXYdkKeIsmwNR0s88rco3w2J0AsKtIeKeEIXJemjdbetsy-MIdxJORaPRMmCua9Kd4JZey111g9MTOdssEr6BEZV9PIvk78gQkjfckMVNk7m2Ad_HBzXbtHZHFPsBQ4YGZdk8Xl4kQL-wnqfxVGOILM3GPiIgTjzu8UDtOPksGevc9tbF0gPw==]
- this time referring to "sunblock...the silent killer."
Colbert sunblock [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i9-bZyWquMX60P64iM9_h6TZoXYdkKeIsmwNR0s88rco3w2J0AsKtIeKeEIXJemjdbetsy-MIdxJORaPRMmCua9Kd4JZey111g9MTOdssEr6BEZV9PIvk78gQkjfckMVNk7m2Ad_HBzXbtHZHFPsBQ4YGZdk8Xl4kQL-wnqfxVGOILM3GPiIgTjzu8UDtOPksGevc9tbF0gPw==]
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How well did these stories address our 10 criteria?
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New Drug May Help Some Asthmatics, Study Finds [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i8Tp3CoGf2i1lLxcgLeRvWktr7IV3JZbAt9uIkNlTC0k7blHdg-G_ypu4g5PlQJH23NUlXf7wH35A_46na7rXdQiLSxMUSt-B2CWXSbOFV1LJIGmGyqnDgI96cmkuXAfARujnEvvRFO4_9lNiefnqbANgSL-xhtClRf8ATXmFSqJTZd_HEIagmIwNR70pDJseQ=]
Note "may help" and "some" qualifiers.
Then see below what Reuters reported on
the same drug and data.
* Regeneron, Sanofi asthma drug seen as potential game changer [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k6jYAYwD0i-wS91vAjHGih9Emtog_9equU0_0PxVSu3JuloboBfJVkqORcovyAzMm2pmoCXFMTCoVwi5hlnK18FfKdsGXGhASi49udzuyhZOLyJ5M08zFb6dHqLg2MBIxBwLWk5IlII4J3335JW4GiAn-ACiKiCAt-M1LRJBEBxwymDcQmhLT-qjtd8GNi8NvHmdhNx80kVsDPVE_WwQ11Kmsl0sit3i]
It was an adequate summary but the overly optimistic tone about the drug's future
was tough to swallow.
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