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Duo writes about how health statistics can mislead
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Don’t fudge the facts on chocolate studies
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Frailty affects quality of life, makes seniors more vulnerable
Image by Alex E. Proimos via flickr. The term “frailty” seems to be practically synonymous with aging. And while it’s true that adults naturally have a gradual physical decline as they age, not every...
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Return to McAllen illustrates changes ACA has brought to health care system
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Duo writes about how health statistics can mislead
Writing in mathematics-focused Plus Magazine, Mike Pearson (bio) and David Spiegelhalter (bio|wikipedia) examine not only the variety of methods used to report health statistics, but also just how each...
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Tanning beds: What do the numbers really mean?
This is a guest post from Ivan Oransky, M.D., editor of Reuters Health and AHCJ’s treasurer, written at my invitation. May has been declared “Melanoma Awareness Month” or “Skin Cancer Awareness Month”...
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Coverage of bacon, cell phones doesn’t add up
Zoe Williams, a columnist for the UK’s Guardian, weighs in on coverage of two recent studies, saying that the Daily Mail “takes the role of the Friend Who Exaggerates.” Williams takes issue with how...
View ArticleNEJM article: Media partially to blame for slow adoption of cost-effective...
In a new “Perspectives” piece in the New England Journal of Medicine, Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D., and Arnold Milstein, M.D., M.P.H., examine why cost-effective health care has been slow to catch on in the...
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Don’t fudge the facts on chocolate studies
Studies that support a link between chocolate and good health are popular with readers. But the reality is that most chocolate studies are observational in nature and are therefore limited in what they...
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Frailty affects quality of life, makes seniors more vulnerable
Image by Alex E. Proimos via flickr. The term “frailty” seems to be practically synonymous with aging. And while it’s true that adults naturally have a gradual physical decline as they age, not every...
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Return to McAllen illustrates changes ACA has brought to health care system
Photo: Peter Dutton via Flickr In June 2009, Atul Gawande wrote an influential New Yorker article, about the community of McAllen, Texas, which has some of the highest per-capita Medicare costs in the...
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Context, context, context: How journalists can avoid confusing readers with...
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Research: Finesse, transparency key when reporting foodborne illness outbreaks
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Duo writes about how health statistics can mislead
Writing in mathematics-focused Plus Magazine, Mike Pearson (bio) and David Spiegelhalter (bio|wikipedia) examine not only the variety of methods used to report health statistics, but also just how each...
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Tanning beds: What do the numbers really mean?
This is a guest post from Ivan Oransky, M.D., editor of Reuters Health and AHCJ’s treasurer, written at my invitation. May has been declared “Melanoma Awareness Month” or “Skin Cancer Awareness Month”...
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