Sitemap - 2025 - Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Substack

Is artificial intelligence polluting journalism and medicine?

Marty Makary's myopic menopause panel

FDA's Marty Makary muddles the evidence on food dyes

How disease is defined may hurt patients

Keeping an eye on the Kennedy capers

Elephants, jellyfish & memory pill advertising

Social Security email was confusing, inaccurate and cheerleading

I’m prey for predatory journals & conferences

The Gobbledygook of “Gold Standard Science”

Pipeline of supplements flows from federal health agencies

Mistrust in artificial intelligence in health care - 6 items

Focus on GLP-1 drugs & eye problems

New Alzheimer's test: The coverage vs. context

Bernie wants drug ads banned. He's not alone.

Weighing more GLP-1 drug concerns

Too much glitz, too little evidence, in full body scan stories

Why People May Stop Using GLP-1 Drugs

Do ultra-processed foods kill 124,000 Americans yearly?

ChatGPT still can’t do what my team did

Scrutinizing the study on cancer & exercise

RFK, Jr. attacks "corrupt journals" with a corrupt idea of his own

Why I haven’t been publishing

Trump's new Surgeon General pick embraces Woo Woo

Gun violence prevention apparently not a Trump priority

TIME gives Eli Lilly a lot of free advertising

Journalists: a heart attack is not the same as sudden cardiac arrest

Confessions of a drug ad writer & more celeb drug ads.

Rough ride on the RFK, Jr. rollercoaster

“Protective effect” of statins vs. dementia?

Another troubled tale at the FDA; what’s next?

Putting new Alzheimer's test in context

Highlights of first 3 months Substacking

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Disease-mongering in pharma obesity event

Questioning coronary artery calcium scans & news coverage thereof

Patterns, Pitfalls & Pollution of the Public Dialogue on Health Care

Marketing outpacing science on 2 women's health issues

And the Oscar goes to....Big Pharma ads?

Have you witnessed a sudden cardiac arrest?

If 23andMe tanks, what happens to your data?

It doesn't take much to fuel anti-vax fever

Beware social media’s medical misinformation

Medical whistleblowers

The uncomfortable uncertainty of cancer "cures"

Overdosing on Ozempic news

“Dangerous” fake Tom Hanks diabetes ad

Viewers question breasts & spending in SB LIX ads

"The one supplement Halle Berry swears by"

Super Bowl weight loss drug ad controversy

Note to my readers

A call for healthy skepticism to improve critical thinking about health care

Odell Beckham, Jr. & more pre-Super Bowl drug hype

Sports TV celeb Erin Andrews’ diagnosis makes splashy headlines

Critique of 1440 newsletter: Unbiased? Transparent?

Not so fast with private industry promises about AI for cancer vaccine

No, Washington Post, that’s NOT what the study found

Wow: ”medical journals” & headhunters want me?!?

10 egregious examples of profiteering & dysfunction in health care

"Upbeat" drug ad upsets some with prostate cancer