Tagged: Oncology

Cancer, oils, and uncritical reporting - BioBlog

Alison Campbell • Oct 11, 2017 •

• Alternative Medicine,
• cancer,
• DoTERRA,
• essential oils,
• Oncology,
• pseudoscience,
• reporting,
• Science and Society

On Sunday, the Stuff website carried a story about a particular brand of essential oils that may as well have been marked ‘advertorial’. This is because most of the article comprises positive commentary from those involved in selling the products – you have to scroll well down the screen to find a photo and brief comment from the Medical … Read More

Why are some preventable cancer deaths in Māori and Pacific peoples increasing? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Oct 31, 2016 •

• cancer,
• ethnicity,
• H. pylori,
• Health,
• inequality,
• Māori health,
• Obesity,
• Oncology,
• Pacific,
• public health,
• Smoking

Dr Andrea Teng, June Atkinson, Dr George Disney, Prof Nick Wilson, Prof Diana Sarfati, Dr Melissa McLeod, Prof Tony Blakely Work we just published shows some adverse trends in cancer deaths by ethnic group, as well as some favourable trends. In this blog we discuss some of the key findings of this research and what the options are for NZ … Read More

Keytruda – The Tip of a Drug Funding Iceberg - Guest Work

Guest Author • Feb 17, 2016 •

• cancer,
• drug funding,
• Oncology,
• Pharmac

by Dr Francis Hunter Reminiscent of the furore surrounding public access to a one-year course of Herceptin, PHARMAC’s recent assignment of a low funding priority to pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for advanced melanoma has brought cancer drug funding back to the centre stage of national debate. Obfuscation from health minister Jonathon Coleman notwithstanding, the plight of metastatic melanoma patients … Read More

Show Me the Technology - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Feb 06, 2010 •

• competition,
• DHBs,
• Doctor Shortage,
• Economics,
• Hospitals,
• hybrid health services,
• Ministry of Health,
• National,
• Oncology,
• Sciblogs,
• Specialists,
• Tony Ryall

The Dominion Post writes yesterday about the looming shortage of oncologists. Four cancer doctors have resigned in a very short space of time. The article explores all the usual reasons why doctors leave, particularly the worrying ones of overwork,  which can only be fixed by employing more hard-to-get doctors. What struck me, though, was the [...] Related posts: … Read More

De Beers and Doctors - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Feb 01, 2010 •

• De Beers,
• Diamonds,
• Economics,
• Employment,
• Fees,
• Oncology,
• Salaries,
• Sciblogs,
• Service and Food Workers Union

De Beers, the diamond merchants, and specialists in certain disciplines are wealthy for exactly the same reasons. They both have something that is rare. It De Beer’s case, it is diamonds. In the doctor’s case it is his skills as a physician. I earn a salary way above the average for no reason other than [...] Related posts: … Read More

Spam Journalism #61 - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Oct 14, 2009 •

• cancer,
• Cell Phones,
• Hazards,
• media,
• Mobile phones,
• Oncology,
• research,
• Sciblogs,
• Spam

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. Don’t you just love it when headlines say the exact opposite of the main body of the article? Mobile phone cancer link charted Studies on whether mobile phones can cause cancer, especially brain tumors, vary widely in quality and there may be [...] … Read More