This story had one major flaw – suggesting that this was about withholding needed care – a misguided suggestion that overshadowed the task force’s call for improved shared decision-making. ...
Good overall but with several significant flaws: no disclosure of conflict of interest in one key interviewee, reliance on a single sensational patient anecdote, and no information on harms....
Overall good job.However, the story may give readers an exaggerated sense of the value of this device in several ways that we explain in detail in our review.
This story, on a novel approach to infusing chemotherapy for a brain tumor, just goes to show what a careful, engaged reporter can accomplish when given sufficient time and space to write a story.
The story provides a reasonable amount of information on the study and places it in context of other studies and in context of other treatment options.
Another well-done "Healthy Skeptic" column - this one about on-the-skin diet patches, their claims, and the lack of published evidence to back up those claims....