Stories about the health benefits of chocolate are a good way to get the attention of viewers and readers. Wouldn’t it be great if the headlines were true?
Monthly Archives: October 2008
EBM provider Bazian uses Scrubs to make a point
A few more things about Bazian, the company that provides the evidence-based medicine (EBM) analysis used by Behind the Headlines. (Bazian, BTW, is named after the 18th century mathematician Thomas Bayes, as in Bayesian probability.) Those who work at Bazian call themselves evidologists. “Evidology aggregates, filters and synthesizes the entire universe of research about a…
Get your health news here
A health news site on the Internet that provides objective information, with no incentive to stretch the boundaries of truth.
Health news and competitive journalism
If we really understood the motivation behind news stories on health and medicine, we might reasonably decide to stop reading.
How the pharmas make us sick
Just in case you thought your symptoms were benign, drug companies and advertisers will be happy to set you straight.
Are Americans naive about medicine?
Despite a growing dissatisfaction with the doctor/patient relationship, does our traditional respect for the medical profession leave us susceptible to disease mongering?
The last well person
“A well person is a patient who has not been completely worked up.”
"I" Is for Innocent: Health obsession in fiction
Private eye Kinsey Milhone gets an earful of healthism.
My personal odyssey through the health culture
I was a “victim of advice” in the seventies, but I should have known better.
The Health Culture: Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.
The incessant injunction to adopt “healthy lifestyles” may not be in our best interest, either as individuals or as a society.
