Alexios Mantzarlis reaches out to Gary Schwitzer of HealthNewsReview.org for some fact-checking tips for medical stories. On relative vs. absolute risk: "A 50 percent relative reduction in the risk of contracting a certain disease sounds pretty impressive. But if that reduction means that patients in the control treatment had a two in 100 chance of contracting the malady while patients being studied had a 1 in 100 likelihood, the absolute risk reduction is 1 percent."
March 31, 2016
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