Ben Goldacre, a British physician and writer, makes a prediction in this week’s BMJ (subscription required for full article access): “I’d like to make a sage prediction, seeing as it’s early December. One of the joys of watching bad science coverage in the media—as I have done for four years now—is that you start to [...]
We may be preaching to the choir with many of our attempts to improve health journalism if we only reach reporters. The editors to whom they report may be the most important group to reach to effect change. With that goal, I’m grateful that The American Editor, a publication of the American Society of Newspaper [...]
We’re in the middle of the November TV ratings/sweeps period. TV stations at these times often suddenly like to show a great interest in health care stories because their consultants tell them that viewers want health care news. (Why they don’t give it this attention the rest of the year is unknown.) But health care [...]
Minnesota Medicine this month has a good summary of our work to date with HealthNewsReview.org.
Here’s a guest editor column from one of our reviewers, Harry DeMonaco, a Senior Clinical Associate in the Decision Support and Quality Management Unit of the Massachusetts General Hospital. News coverage of the recent American Heart Association Scientific Sessions (November 4 – 7) raises new questions about how journalists cover scientific meetings. On Monday [...]
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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