Dr Ray Moynihan is regularly interviewed and his work reported on in media around the world. Here is a selection of some recent examples. Apologies if some of the links no longer work.
- Fairfax newspapers, Australia, March 2018, Ray quoted on vaginal mesh scandal
- Medical Republic, November 2017, Ray quoted on genomics
- Medical Republic, August 2017, Ray quoted on overdiagnosis
- ABC, Fairfax, The Saturday Paper, July 2017, Ray quoted on study of industry funded medical education events
- ABC , February 2017, Ray quoted on regulation of drug marketing
- A piece by Ray and Professor Lisa Bero published in JAMA Internal Medicine in January 2017 gained considerable media mentions globally, including in this selection:
- Industry money may taint advice from patient groups, regulators, Reuters
- From Twitter To Treatment Guidelines, Industry Influence Permeates Medicine, NPR
- Hidden Conflicts of Interest Found Throughout Medicine, MedPage Today
- Commercial interests may drown out patients’ voices, Medical Xpress
- The Monthly, Australia, 2015 –Ray’s work is briefly quoted in this extensive essay called Too Many Pills
- The Daily Mail, UK, June 23, 2015 –a story about a possible new drug for a purported condition of low libido
- The Sydney Morning Herald, May 21, 2015 –a story about Ray’s latest research on overdiagnosis
- ABC’s The Drum program, May 8, 2015 –featuring a debate about female sexual difficulties
- ABC’s Life Matters program, October 3, 2013 –featuring a debate about Medicalising Normality
- ABC’s AM program, August 14, 2013 –on our study in PLOS Medicine on disease panel links to drug companies
- The Age, Shifting Boundaries, August 14, 2013 –on a study we published in PLOS Medicine
- The Sun-Herald, ‘Duped into Drug Use, April 7, 2013 –on the need for more transparency in doctor-drug company relationships
- The Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Allergy or Anxiety’, April 6, 2013 – on the unhealthy impacts of industry funding of professional and patient groups
- New Zealand Radio, This Way Up, September 22, 2012 –on the problem of overdiagnosis
- BBC Radio, two part series August 14-21, 2012 –on the problem of overdiagnosis
- You can read some of the coverage of Ray’s 2012 BMJ article Preventing Overdiagnosis in the Daily Telegraph UK here, in the Daily Mail UK here and in the Independent UK here
- The Atlantic, April, 2012 –on the problem of disease-mongering
- The Australian, May, 2011 –on drug company plans to disclose payments to doctors
- The Australian Brodacasting Corporation –Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
- The New York Times, USA –Sex and the single drug
- The Observer, United Kingdom – The race to discover Viagra for women
- The Globe and Mail, Canada – Too Much Sex? Doctors Want to Make the Diagnosis Official
- Orgasm Inc., Documentary, United States
- Daily Telegraph, Australia – Dosed up on Donations and Addicted to Drug Company Money
- El Pais, Spain – Usted no está sano, está preenfermo
- Nature Medicine, United States – Straight talk with…Ray Moynihan
- ABC Life Matters, Australia – 10 Questions You Must Ask Your Doctor