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How to read articles about healthcare
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This article 'How to read health news behind the headlines', by Dr Alicia White, explains how to assess health claims in the media.
Key Concepts addressed:- Claims: are they justified?
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- 1-11 Explanations about how treatments work can be wrong
- 2-11 Subgroup analyses may be misleading
- 2-12 Relative measures of effects can be misleading
- 2-12 Single studies can be misleading
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This article ‘How to read health news behind the Headlines’, by Dr Alicia White, explains how to assess health claims in the media.
The most important rule to remember is: don’t automatically believe the headline. It is there to draw you into buying the paper and reading the story. Would you read an article called: “Coffee pretty unlikely to cause cancer, but you never know”? Probably not. You need to analyse the article to see what it says about the research it is reporting on.
