Doctors were waiting for months to receive results from clinical trials on their patients. Now some people get their information on health and their advice on social media. The latest health news: Health Beat on Action 7 Newskoat Health Expert, Dr. Barry Ramo, explains how information spreads to these platforms and what research has shown. “Social media disseminate medical information like a virus,” said Ramo. “A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association ONCology revealed that experts who are open to these drugs often have a financial relationship with the pharmaceutical company that makes the medication.” Ramo also said that the observation was important because the information that people receive often comes from unreliable sources. An article on the social networks he saw was an expert suggesting that a new medication was a “change of game”. “Well, the information on the drug has become viral, but in fact, it was only based on 20 patients who had been treated,” said Ramo. “And the full newspaper had not been published. So if you get your information from tweets, I would go to a regular source of information. Because artificial intelligence programs that give this information are more likely to produce something exciting, rather than precise.” He suggests sticking to expert sources, such as news of the health of centers for disease. You can download it here.
Doctors were waiting for months to receive results from clinical trials on their patients. Now some people get their health information and their advice on social networks.
The latest health news: Health Beat on Action 7 News
Koat’s health expert, Dr. Barry Ramo, explains how information spreads to these platforms and what research has shown.
“Social media disseminate medical information like a virus,” said Ramo. “A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association Oncology revealed that experts open to these drugs often have a financial relationship with the pharmaceutical company that manufactures the drug.”
Ramo also said that the observation is important because the information that people receive often comes from unreliable sources. A publication on the social networks he saw was an expert suggesting that a new drug was a “game changer”.
“Well, the information on the drug has become viral, but in fact, it was based on only 20 patients who had been treated,” said Ramo. “And the full newspaper had not been published. So, if you get your information from tweets, I would go to a regular source of information. Because artificial intelligence programs that give this information are more likely to produce something exciting rather than precise.”
He suggests sticking to expert sources, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the American Heart Association.
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