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NEJM reignites conflict-of-interest debate with reader poll
The following is a guest blog post from Kathlyn Stone, who is an Associate Editor for HealthNewsReview.org. After reading the NEJM’s recent reader poll on conflict-of-interest rules, one gets the sense...
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Former NEJM editors slam “backtrack” on conflict of interest
Yesterday, HealthNewsReview.org Associate Editor Kathlyn Stone summarized ongoing reaction to the New England Journal of Medicine’s long-winded series justifying closer ties between physicians and the...
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Weak reporting of limitations of observational research
A research letter in this week’s JAMA Internal Medicine addresses an issue that has become a pet peeve of ours: the failure of medical journal articles, journal news releases, and subsequent news...
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Skinny jeans & nerve damage case studies have haunted me throughout my career
31 years ago, as a young medical news reporter for CNN, I was upset because a story I’d been working on was bumped from a newscast in favor of a story about a JAMA journal article of a single case...
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Medical journal news releases CAN make a difference
This week The BMJ sent journalists a news release, “Regular consumption of spicy foods linked to lower risk of death.” The second paragraph – the third sentence overall – of the news release read:...
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Troubled BMJ news release on young fathers & early death risk
Shortly after praising a news release by The BMJ earlier today for emphasizing the limitations of an observational study, another news release for another journal published by BMJ is at the other end...
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“Disingenuous denial” of medical research conflicts of interest
A Viewpoint article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), “Confluence, Not Conflict of Interest: Name Change Necessary,” caught the eye of Dr. Richard Lehman, who writes the...
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Top journal editors resist transparency
It’s difficult to make a case for hiding or obscuring information about health and the medicines we take, but it seems the editors of two top medical journals are doing just that. The decisions of...
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Podcast: Rare disease foundation says medical journal misled patients
This is the second in an unplanned, occasional series about real people who are harmed by inaccurate, imbalanced, incomplete, misleading media messages. The first was about a man with glioblastoma...
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Xarelto controversy highlights need for more transparency at NEJM
The following is a guest blog post from one of our contributors, Susan Molchan, MD, a psychiatrist in the Washington, DC, area. She’s been closely following, and criticizing, NEJM’s stance on...
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Weak reporting of limitations of observational research
A research letter in this week’s JAMA Internal Medicine addresses an issue that has become a pet peeve of ours: the failure of medical journal articles, journal news releases, and subsequent news...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Skinny jeans & nerve damage case studies have haunted me throughout my career
31 years ago, as a young medical news reporter for CNN, I was upset because a story I’d been working on was bumped from a newscast in favor of a story about a JAMA journal article of a single case...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Medical journal news releases CAN make a difference
This week The BMJ sent journalists a news release, “Regular consumption of spicy foods linked to lower risk of death.” The second paragraph – the third sentence overall – of the news release read:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Troubled BMJ news release on young fathers & early death risk
Shortly after praising a news release by The BMJ earlier today for emphasizing the limitations of an observational study, another news release for another journal published by BMJ is at the other end...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Disingenuous denial” of medical research conflicts of interest
A Viewpoint article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), “Confluence, Not Conflict of Interest: Name Change Necessary,” caught the eye of Dr. Richard Lehman, who writes the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top journal editors resist transparency
It’s difficult to make a case for hiding or obscuring information about health and the medicines we take, but it seems the editors of two top medical journals are doing just that. The decisions of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Podcast: Rare disease foundation says medical journal misled patients
This is the second in an unplanned, occasional series about real people who are harmed by inaccurate, imbalanced, incomplete, misleading media messages. The first was about a man with glioblastoma...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Xarelto controversy highlights need for more transparency at NEJM
The following is a guest blog post from one of our contributors, Susan Molchan, MD, a psychiatrist in the Washington, DC, area. She’s been closely following, and criticizing, NEJM’s stance on...
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A single paragraph published nearly 40 years ago contributed to the opioid...
“Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…” Jonathan Swift, The Examiner,...
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A tale of two (BMJ) studies: one gets attention, the other gets neglected. Why?
Within the past couple of months the BMJ published two separate observational studies looking at how two very different lifestyle factors might impact memory and dementia. Both studies draw from the...
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