Gary Schwitzer

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What You Can Do if You See Slipshod Health Care News

Jessie Gruman | August 5, 2011

Check out Gary Schwitzer of Health News Review on actions you can and should take. Part of a short five part video series. http://www.healthnewsreview.org/blog/2011/07/part-5-of-video-series-what-you-can-do-if-you-see-slipshod-health-care-news.html

general, shared decision making

Shared Decision Making in the News

Jessie Gruman | June 28, 2011

Media coverage of the challenges we face in making good treatment decisions often focuses on and sensationalizes medical errors, catastrophes and risks. So it was great to see this impressive TV news clip circulated by Gary Schwitzer of HealthNewsReview.org in his blog last week. Reporter Jeff Baillon of Minnesota’s FOX 9 news does a great [...]

research issues

Health Geek Tip: Abstracts are ads. Read full studies when you can.

Susannah Fox | June 16, 2010

Ivan Oransky, executive editor of Reuters Health, provided excellent evidence yesterday regarding the need to look past abstracts of journal articles if accuracy matters to you: