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We analysed almost 1,000 social media posts about 5 popular medical tests. Most were utterly misleading

By Brooke Nickel, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Joshua Zadro, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, Sydney Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney
Ray Moynihan, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine, Bond University
When Kim Kardashian posted on Instagram about having had a full-body MRI, she enthused that the test can be “life saving”, detecting diseases in the earliest stages before symptoms arise.

What Kardashian neglected to say was there’s no evidence this expensive scan can bring benefits for healthy…The Conversation


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