by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 15, 2020 | Health vs. Hype
Health Versus Hype Project: January’s Most Over- and Under-Hyped Medical Research Studies Americans rely on the news media to accurately report on new health-related research. But the media often gives credence to dubious or inconclusive studies while ignoring...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 12, 2020 | Health vs. Hype, Nutrition and Diet
A team led by Dr. David Ludwig from Boston Children’s Hospital that reviewed diet trials found that 86% of such studies “lacked rigor” and were prone to bias. Ludwig adds that diet research is also severely underfunded. Nathan Gray filed this report in NUTRA: When the...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 12, 2020 | Health vs. Hype, Nutrition and Diet
The costs of diet-related diseases are rising fast but Washington is still not alarmed enough to open the purse strings for federal nutrition research. Helena Bottemiller Evich and Catherine Boudreau filed this report for Politico: A POLITICO review of federal budget...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 11, 2020 | Health vs. Hype, Nutrition and Diet
Several studies, including a widely reported-on study published recently in the International Journal of Cancer, have examined the link between hair dye and cancer. But the media members who cover these studies do not always gleam the truth from naked rows of numbers...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 11, 2020 | Health vs. Hype, Nutrition and Diet
A data-centered approach is seen as the future of diabetes diagnosis and treatment. Akansh Khurana filed this report in BioSpectrum: Once prediabetes progresses to diabetes, it leads to serious complications and becomes much harder to control. Screening and awareness...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 6, 2020 | Health vs. Hype, Nutrition and Diet
The FDA rejected the studies confirming the safety and effectiveness of the brain-boosting drug piracetam in 2004. Yet 15 years later, piracetam is still widely sold in US despite the FDA’s efforts. Eli Wolfe wrote this report published in Salon: A study published...
