From October 7 to 9, 2019, Re-Check’s Catherine Riva participated in the 4Es Forum Improving the detection, analysis and reporting of harms in medicines, a three-day workshop organized by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM Oxford) and Uppsala Monitoring Center, the WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring. The meeting was held at the Ettore Majorana [...]
The British Medical Journal publication “BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine” unveiled an analysis signed by two investigative journalists and a gynecologist based in Switzerland. The paper brings to light flaws that void the positive conclusions reached by Cochrane. This leaves unanswered the question of HPV vaccine’s efficacy. The BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine article, signed by investigative reporters Catherine Riva [...]
Re-Check joined the European Investigative Journalism Conference, that took place in Mechelen, Belgium, In May 2018. We were honored to have the chance to teach one day long to a group of investigative reporters of several countries. Conflicts of interest, debunking flawed health news and how to assess the evidence quality were at the core of [...]
Catherine Riva of Re-Check was selected by the organizers of the Conference to present the results of her investigation on the “mammo-business”, an extensive system of business models and careers building grown in Switzerland around mammography screening. Her long-form investigative piece was honored in 2014 with a Media Award of the Swiss Academies of Medical Sciences. [...]
