We interrupt this state fair for a little prostate cancer screening
Updated: 2011-08-30 16:59:53
Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org We interrupt this state fair for a little prostate cancer screening By Gary Schwitzer on August 30, 2011 11:59 AM 1 Comment No TrackBacks It's State Fair time in Minnesota a grand time at one of the nation's best state fairs . Every year , the NBC station in the Twin Cities , KARE-11, offers free health screenings at the fair TV stations love such events . And this year the added touch was the fact that the big Drive Against Prostate Cancer mobile screening unit rolled onto the fairgrounds outside the KARE-11 building . It's well-intentioned but it's not as simple an idea as the TV station marketing people probably think it is . Now , if KARE really cared about the issue ,
Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org FDA publishes Guide to Evidence-Based Risk Benefit Communication By Gary Schwitzer on August 16, 2011 10:33 AM 1 Comment No TrackBacks The FDA's Risk Communication Advisory Committee of which I'm a member , today published a book written by committee members , Guide to Evidence-Based Risk and Benefit Communication . The book is available online as a pdf file . My chapter was on the tendency for journalists , when reporting on health care interventions , to exaggerate benefits and minimize or ignore potential harms . Committee chair Baruch Fischhoff , PhD , Carnegie Mellon University , said : A goal was to make communication science accessible . Another was to facilitate
Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Newsweek cover story on tests procedures that may do more harm than good By Gary Schwitzer on August 15, 2011 11:49 AM No Comments No TrackBacks See Sharon Begley's Newsweek cover story , One Word Can Save Your Life : No New research shows how some common tests and procedures aren't just expensive , but can do more harm than . good Her ending : Many doctors don't seem to be getting the message about useless and harmful health care . Medicare pays them more than 100 million a year for screening colonoscopies some 40 percent are for people in whom they will almost certainly harm more than help . Arthroscopic knee surgery for osteoarthritis is performed about 650,000 times a
: : Everyday Health Spotlight Scott Kennedy and John London : Fathers Fighting for Kids' Cancer Cures Scott Kennedy and John London both experienced the devastating effects of having a child with cancer firsthand and were inspired to create a non-profit organization , Solving Kids' Cancer , to prompt faster development of better treatments for pediatric . cancers By Everyday Health Editors Both Scott Kennedy and John London had children who were diagnosed with , and eventually died from , pediatric cancers . When Kennedy’s son passed away from neuroblastoma , he left his marketing job to co-found the nonprofit organization Solving Kids’ Cancer SKC with London , a hedge-fund manager , whose daughter died of a rare childhood cancer at age 4. Today , the two fathers are on a mission to grow
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