Posted by Gary Schwitzer in Health care journalism
See my review article in this week’s British Medical Journal.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7478/1352
Treatment for advanced ovarian tumors may lengthen survival, but questions still remain, despite the story’s emphasis on “promising” and “new hope.”
As with the HealthDay story on this research that we reviewed, readers of this story get a good dose of caveats and cautions along with the suggestions that electrical brain stimulation might someday “have implications” for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
The readers of this story and the other one we reviewed by Reuters are likely to understand that electrical brain stimulation could have some memory effects, but it’s a long way from becoming a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
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Anna posted on December 8, 2004 at 4:51 pm
That’s great! I hope that news stations in our market and other take this seriously. Hope everything is going well with your project with channel 9.
Best,
Anna