From the NYT: Growing awareness of the risks of scanning led F.D.A. scientists several years ago to begin demanding more and better information from manufacturers to prove that their devices actually were effective for such clinical applications as cancer screening … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Nice write up in “Antidote”
William Heisel who blogs at Antidote, posted the first part of an interview with me here and started off with this lovely introduction. I’d like to think it’s apposite, and that’s the reason it seems so well put to me … Continue reading
People waking up to the problem
Amnesty International finally released it’s report on maternal mortality in the US, calling the situation “scandalous,” and “disgraceful.” Jennifer Block has a great piece timed with the release in Time Magazine. And Gary Schwitzer summed it up with “A week … Continue reading
Worshipping the power of tests to stave off death
Richard Ablin had an incendiary op-ed in the New York Times yesterday. He’s the discoverer of prostate specific antigen and he writes: “I never dreamed that my discovery four decades ago would lead to such a profit-driven public health disaster. … Continue reading