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NYT contradicts itself on war on cancer
Knight Science Journalism Tracker —
Authority: 437
The New York Times, which has been running a series of front-page articles on how we’ve lost the war on cancer , has an interesting little tidbit today–a few hundred words of an AP story crammed into the bottom left corner of page A24. The story is about a report that predicts that by 2020, the death rate from ...3 days ago -
Drugs To Prevent Cancer? The NYT Misses The Devil In The Details
Better Health —
Authority: 510
In yet another article addressing the war on cancer, The New York Times today tackles cancer prevention , focusing on alternative and mainstream Pharma products marketed to reduce the risk for cancer. While author Gina Kolata seems to have done her homework when it comes to the failure of alternative medicine to ...2 weeks ago -
Drugs that Prevent Cancer are Being Ignored
John Goodman's Health Policy Blog —
Authority: 482
This is Gina Kolata in The New York Times : A large and rigorous study found that a generic drug, finasteride, costing about $2 a day, could prevent as many as 50,000 cases [of prostate cancer] each year. Another study found that finasteride’s close cousin, dutasteride, about $3.50 a day, has the same effect. ...3 weeks ago -
Would You Take a Pill That Prevents Cancer? Probably Not.
http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor —
Authority: 634
Gina Kolata points out , once again, that diet and exercise have not been shown to affect breast cancer rates. Massive, well-run observational studies and randomized controlled trials turn up nothing. This finding appears to be unacceptable; popular culture rejects it utterly. Women’s magazines continue to preach ...4 weeks ago -
Would You Take a Pill That Prevents Cancer? Unlikely.
The XX Factor —
Authority: 139
Gina Kolata points out , once again, that diet and exercise have not been shown to affect breast cancer rates. Massive, well-run observational studies and randomized controlled trials turn up nothing. This finding appears to be unacceptable; popular culture rejects it utterly. Women’s magazines continue to preach ...4 weeks ago -
NY Times, LA Times: Gene therapy successes
Knight Science Journalism Tracker —
Authority: 437
Leber’s congenital amaurosis . Say that five times fast. Or try this one: adrenoleukodystrophy . If you’re a movie fan, you might be able the manage the second one: It was the disease in the movie Lorenzo’s Oil . These are among the diseases for which gene therapy has recently shown progress, according to a ...5 weeks ago -
Almost Everybody Has or Will Have Cancer Cells
John Goodman's Health Policy Blog —
Authority: 482
This is Gina Kolata, writing in The New York Times . Cancer cells and precancerous cells are so common that nearly everyone by middle age or old age is riddled with them, said Thea Tlsty, a professor of pathology at the University of California, San Francisco. That was discovered in autopsy studies of people who ...5 weeks ago
