We’ve been notified that HealthNewsReview.org has been judged to be a finalist in the category of Web Sites in the 2007 International Health & Medical Media Awards. All category winners will be named by September 17. HealthNewsReview.org is now 15 months old, has reviewed more than 400 stories, and has already won a Knight-Batten Award [...]
The Star Tribune offered a business section feature yesterday on local doctors finding new uses for the $1.2 million Da Vinci robotic surgery devices. At $1.2 million, you bet they want to and need to find new uses. The story explained that the robotic device came on the market just 8 years ago, that Minnesota [...]
The Los Angeles Times last week published a series of articles on drug marketing. Excerpts: “In a nation that consumed $279-billion worth of prescription medications in 2006 – spending 80% of that on brand name drugs – their efforts appear to be paying off. Americans filling a prescription choose brand-name products 37% of the time, [...]
We look for more critical analysis of FDA expedited approval of a new drug like this.
Five-star story on small study that tries to counter large body of evidence on soy supplements for hot flashes.
Our reviewers, including a leading women’s health clinician-researcher, felt this piece would have been benefited from more data and context.
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