Reduction in HIV-1 incidence among rural Ugandans gives hope to other African countries
...nce as the basis for policy recommendations can be misleading and counterproductive. Countries with HIV-1 prevalence rates of more than 30% (such as some in Southern Africa) would be wrong to assume that by simply copying a few obvious Ugandan government interventions, they can expect to see a two-thirds reduct...Safety claims of new arthritis drugs may be misleading
.... They also call for the wide dissemination of the misleading results of the trial has to be counterbalanced by the equally wide dissemination of the findings of the reanalysis according to the original protocol. "If this is not done, the pharmaceutical industry will feel no need to put the record straight in t...Action needed to stop 'disease mongering'
...lieve that more could be done to expose and reduce misleading wonder drug stories in the media, which help to facilitate so much disease mongering. They...Swedish trials suggest modest benefit for screening mammography
...gainst the Swedish randomised controlled trials is misleading and scientifically unfounded. In an accompanying Commentary (p 904), Karen Gelmon from the British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada, concludes: These data confirm that women who are otherwise well, especially those aged 55-69 years, and who ...Yale study of hospital website ratings finds mixed results
...g on mortality data using billing data may be more misleading than illuminating for the public."...BU receives Knight Foundation grant
...He said lack of technical knowledge often leads to misleading and confusing stories. "Medical and public health issues play an increasingly important role in the lives of Americans," Ketter added. "The challenge to journalism is to keep up with these issues, and to make sense of them for the public. The cent...Media coverage of new drugs is often misleading
...e and prevention. "But stories on new drugs can be misleading when they fail to address potential conflicts of interest and don't discuss both relative and absolute benefits, risks and costs. We hope this study provides some focus for journalists and editors who are continually striving for greater accuracy in ...New biomarker for cervical cancer
...on, depending on the siteof biopsy, results may be misleading and miss a clinically important lesion." Boggess adds: "Identifying an alternative screening method other thancolposcopy that could better predict which minimally abnormal Pap smears aremore likely to progress to pre-invasive or invasive canc...MGH researchers identify angiogenesis inhibitor in gallbladder cancer
...der cancercells grown under the skin - may produce misleading results. The study's results, appearing in the October issue of Nature Medicine, maysomeday lead to strategies to prevent the growth of metastases from gallbladdercancer, a serious problem in treatment of the disease. They also add furthercomplexit...Dartmouth researchers urge caution in communicating results to public
...e how a medical study published thiswinter led to misleading reports and suggest ways to improve communications ofresearch findings to the public. The original study, which claimed to document evidence of sex and race bias inthe evaluation of chest pain, appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine(Februar...Wanted: Holistic approach to cancer treatment
...plementary therapies for cancer.They say: It is misleading to say there is no scientific basis toalternative/complementary cancer therapies. There is a great deal of suggestiveand anecdotal evidence in support of complementary and alternative therapies,but because many of the products are natural foods or he......events. "Just as important, it is probably misleading to use LDLc levels takenafter age 47 to determine what type of therapy a woman should receive to protecther against heart disease," remarked Dr. Kuller, principal investigator on theHealthy Women Study and chairman of the department of epidemiology a...News Tips Friday, March 26, 1999
...owever, the researcherssay using a fixed number is misleading because it is normal for totalcholesterol to change with age and differ significantly by gender and race. What is normal for a three-year-old black female may be significantly lower orhigher than what is normal for a 12-year-old white male. The scie......till lose weight. He stresses that this is highly misleading and that anyone taking orlistat who eats a high fat diet will receive a powerful incentive to reduce their fat intake (owing to foul smelling, fatty stools). Garrow explains that orlistat works by causing 30 per cent of dietary fat to be excreted in ...