Dr Maryanne Demasi

@MaryanneDemasi

Dr Maryanne Demasi, PhD is a presenter/producer for on & : Tuesday nights, 8pm ABC. Tweets are my own views

Sydney
Joined March 2011

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  1. More Drs need to explain simple statistics to patients about harms versus benefits of common medical treatments

  2. "Accessible data are not enough. We need to invest in systems that make the information useful"

  3. "Most doctors express self-acknowledged poor understanding of nutrition" say health experts

  4. "It's time to acknowledge past mistakes and examine why a focus on calorie balance backfired" says

  5. Advertising push to encourage screening for prostate cancer, despite the questionable benefits

  6. BBC story: Antidepressants - blessing or curse?

  7. Meta-analyses may be tainted by funders' influence & can be easily manipulated to serve as a marketing tool

  8. People who say their lives have been ruined by common SSRI antidepressants are taking their case to UK Parliament

  9. It's time to make statin trials available for independent analysis so that Drs can practise evidence-based medicine.

  10. The hidden side of clinical trials | Sile Lane | TEDxMadrid via

  11. Mammograms more likely to cause unneeded treatment than to save lives via

  12. Food as Medicine: "Like most Drs I was pretty ignorant of the issues related to food & health" says

  13. "Fat actually has a useful effect on weight control, contributing to a sensation of fullness"

  14. Majority of women diagnosed with breast cancer after screening mammograms get unnecessary treatment, study...

  15. Mammography reported not to have decreased incidence of metastatic breast cancer. Provocative article.

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