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Cosmetic surgery PR advertising terribleness – another reference
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Continue Reading →What’s a conflict of interest when it comes to breast screening?
The medical press is carrying a lot about the latest international arguments about breast screening. The BMJ carried an excellent editorial ‘Mammography wars” highlighting the recent Canadian taskforce on the subject. This called for a halt to routine breast examination, and a starting age of 50 before starting screening mammography, which they recommended to be […]
Continue Reading →recent BMJ articles
Free links, for reference Barnardo’s misleading survey: publicity at what cost? and Worst cases of patient care in the NHS and wee news piece Janssen funds networking site to promote better mental health commissioning There was also a piece in the Times about paracetamol but it’s behind a wall.
Continue Reading →Nuffield Health : adverts and evidence
This is an advert from this week’s BMJ. I am positively fuming about it. Nuffield Health are responsible for some non evidence based practices via their ‘health assessments‘. These currently consist of annual mammograms for women over 40, annual cervical smears, pelvic (ie vaginal) examination, urine analysis, ‘hydration levels’ and a chest xray ‘if […]
Continue Reading →Off label prescribing in macular degeneration
article in the BMJ, with free link here
Continue Reading →The Government’s criticisms of PFI don’t add up
Medicine and the Media piece in the BMJ. Free link here
Continue Reading →Food from the brain wants your money
to fund ‘research’. I’ve cut and pasted their email flyer, below. It’s very odd. Their test, which I’ve scrutinised here, is not a reliable screening test. See also here. As the flyer below say of their online test, FFTB have ‘still to test its diagnostic ability’. This is the same company that will write to GPs after […]
Continue Reading →GMTV’s Dr Steele is wrong to promote cervical screening in under 25s
Medicine in the Media article in the BMJ, free link here.
Continue Reading →Drugs, the doctors dilemma
article in the Independent, after the Lancet papers of yesterday.
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