Ebm@school – a curriculum of critical health literacy for secondary school students
A curriculum based on the concept of evidence-based medicine, which consists of six modules.
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Know Your Chances
This book has been shown in two randomized trials to improve peoples' understanding of risk in the context of health care choices.
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McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop Resources – Therapy module
This is the therapy module resources provided to the attendees at the McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop.
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McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop Resources – Systematic review module
The Systematic review module resources provided to the attendees at the McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop.
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You Can’t Trust What you read about nutrition
Beware of misleading correlations between foods and chance associations with other factors.
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Understanding Health Research: how science media stories work
Understanding Health Research, a tool for making sense of health studies: how science media stories work.
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Julia Belluz – Lessons from the trenches of evidence-based health journalism at Vox.com
20-minute talk by Julia Belluz on the need to bring the cultures of health journalism and EBM together.
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Avoiding biased treatment comparisons
Biases in tests of treatments are those factors that can lead to conclusions that are systematically different from the truth.
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Why treatment comparisons are essential
Formal comparisons are required to assess treatment effects and to take account of the natural course of health problems.
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Promising treatments
'Promising' treatments greatly outnumber actual advances in treatment.
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Science fact or fiction? Making sense of cancer stories
A Cancer Research UK blog, explaining how to assess the quality of health claims about cancer.
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7 words (and more) you shouldn’t use in medical news
A webpage explaining that dramatic effects of medical treatments are very rare.
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John Ioannidis, the scourge of sloppy science
A 8 min podcast interview with John Ioannidis explaining how research claims can be misleading.
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Science Weekly Podcast – Ben Goldacre
A 1-hour audio interview with Ben Goldacre discussing misleading claims about research.
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Surgery for the treatment of psychiatric illness: the need to test untested theories
Simon Wessely describes the untested theory of autointoxication, which arose in the 1890s and caused substantial harm to patients.
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A new treatment for strawberry birthmarks
Treatments with dramatic effects are occasionally discovered by accident. Take the example of a condition that occurs in infants called […]
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Mother’s kiss
Low-tech approaches can have dramatic effects too. Young children sometimes place small objects – plastic toys or beads, for example […]
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Imatinib for chronic myeloid leukaemia
Impressive results have also been seen in patients given imatinib for chronic myeloid leukaemia [4], [5]. Before imatinib was introduced […]
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Laser treatment of portwine stains
The birthmarks known as portwine stains are caused by permanent and malformed dilated blood vessels in the skin. Commonly occurring […]
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Mistaking the cure
. . .‘it is alleged to be found true by proof, that by the taking of Tobacco, divers and very […]
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Generating and investigating hunches about unanticipated adverse effects of treatments
Generating hunches about unanticipated effects of treatments Unanticipated effects of treatments, whether bad or good, are often first suspected by […]
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Treatments with dramatic effects
Sometimes patients experience responses to treatments which differ so dramatically from their own past experiences, and from the natural history […]
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Stepwise progress doesn’t hit the headlines
Science itself works very badly as a news story: it is by its very nature a subject for the “features” […]
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Moderate treatments effects: usual and not so obvious
Most treatments do not have dramatic effects and fair tests are needed to assess them. And sometimes a treatment may […]
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Dramatic treatment effects: rare and readily recognizable
In this sub-section: Laser treatment of portwine stains Imatinib for chronic myeloid leukaemia Mother’s kiss A new treatment for strawberry […]
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