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People have been saying good things about HealthNewsReview.org, and we wanted to share some of them with you.
HealthNewsReview.org has been named one of the winners of a 2006 Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism. The Knight-Batten Awards spotlight the creative use of new information ideas and technologies to involve citizens in public issues. They are administered by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland.
The site is also a finalist for a grand prize that will be announced Sept. 18 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The site has also been written about recently in the following places:
CBS Public Eye website : "Grading the Nation’s Health Care Coverage"
Editor & Publisher: "Site Looks for ‘Sick’ Health Stories"
National Public Radio, On the Media, "Health News Gets a Checkup"
Minnesota Public Radio, Midmorning, "Separating hype from fact in health news"
We’re gratified by the recognition and by the response from journalists, consumers and health care providers.
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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