Posted by Gary Schwitzer in Health care journalism
Another one of my web efforts, HealthNewsReview.org, was named Cool Site of the Day by The Kim Komando Show one week ago today. Komando says she “hosts the largest talk radio show about computers and the Internet.� The program is heard on over 450 stations throughout the United States. One thing is known: traffic to HealthNewsReview.org soared. This week, the site registered more than 1.3 million hits and had more than 30,000 unique visits. Almost 400 of those visitors became registered users.
After just six months of operation, we have reviewed 208 health news stories on the site.
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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Colleen Kingsbury posted on October 16, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Fantastic publicity for the site – congratulations on 400 new registered users!