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This story reports a new study of an established treatment: the medicated IUD used not to prevent pregnancy, but to treat heavy menstrual bleeding. But the story falls short on several of our key criteria.
It would have been helpful if the story had pursued the question about out how long it typically takes a lab discovery of this nature to go to market as an available treatment (if it proves effective in humans). Instead, a mouse study that was inadequately explained was headlined as if the “drug may help people.”
The story promises information about a “new eye test” and “a new way of identifying people at risk of glaucoma years before vision loss happens.” But the test is never adequately described. And the supposed benefits are not explained in a meaningful way.
Nice catch by my colleague Andrew Holtz (one of our story reviewers on HealthNewsReview.org) as he combed the literature and...
I’m 61. I’ve spent more days in hospitals and doctors’ offices and rehab facilities in the past year than I...
A new analysis published in the Annals of Family Medicine,”Primary Care Physicians’ Use of an Informed Decision-Making Process for Prostate...
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