[Update: A colleague pointed me to the NPR story by Richard Knox, which says, "Scientists have known for a while that breast cancer is really...
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[Update: A colleague pointed me to the NPR story by Richard Knox, which says, "Scientists have known for a while that breast cancer is really four different diseases..." And in the comments below, I added a link to a JAMA study that described the four types in 2006. So I'm now more confident saying that reporters who said researchers "identified four types of breast cancer" were incorrect.]
Sorting out what is new about the breast-cancer-genetics study published Sunday in Nature is proving to be a daunting task. Reading the coverage, however, it seems most of the press made a mistake.
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The ever-vigilant Gary Schwitzer at HealthNewsReview.org points out one of the worst uses of the word "breakthrough" on record. There should be some sort of award for this.
Schwitzer is...
The ever-vigilant Gary Schwitzer at HealthNewsReview.org points out one of the worst uses of the word "breakthrough" on record. There should be some sort of award for this.
Schwitzer is fuming over cover language in the current issue of Prevention magazine. I don't have a copy of the magazine, but the cover (which appears on Prevention's website), sports the following: "Cancer Vaccine Breakthrough."
"So I started flipping through the pages of tips for 'jiggle-proof arms and abs' and such," Schwitzer writes, "and….voila…on page 13 I found the big story under another 'Cancer Breakthrough' heading. In 16 words in that little box, I learned that a vaccine was “moving into the testing phase.”
Reasonable people, Schwitzer...
This job would be a lot easier--and I'd be looking pretty darned good--if I just rewrote Gary Schwitzer's posts on his Health News Review Blog.
Schwitzer, a long-time medical writer,...
This job would be a lot easier--and I'd be looking pretty darned good--if I just rewrote Gary Schwitzer's posts on his Health News Review Blog.
Schwitzer, a long-time medical writer, broadcaster and j-school prof, took a swipe the other day at CNN, where he was once head of medical news. I might disagree with Schwitzer on some of the particulars, but his general thrust was right on target.
The program in question was...
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