At a conference yesterday, Scott Hensley of the Wall Street Journal Health blog showed off a story I had missed. Since it’s the last day of March and basketball’s Final Four is now set, the time is just right to look at it. See the Journal’s “Our March Madness: The Drug Company CEO Bracketâ€?. They [...]
The Association of Health Care Journalists is celebrating its 10th birthday. AHCJ has become a leader in quality improvement in health journalism – and a leader in the entire journalism industry. That effort – and many others – like our University of Minnesota health journalism MA program – are striving to improve the flow of [...]
Reviews of network TV health news stories on HealthNewsReview.org so far in March would suggest it’s more like Halloween season than Easter. The stories have been so bad, it’s scary. Examples & excerpts: Medical breakthrough? New procedure fights tumorsABC’s Good Morning AmericaMarch 18, 2008Rating: 1 star Excerpt of our summary: “This short story presents little [...]
I’ve blogged in the past about TV news operations accepting sponsored news deals with local medical centers. In these deals, oftentimes the news only includes perspectives from that sponsoring hospital. Now, in the first instance I’m aware of, the trend has come to newspapers. The HometownAnnapolis.com website of The Capital newspaper yesterday announced: Partnership should [...]
If you survived the last TV ratings period and DIDN’T see a story about the horrible epidemic of bedbugs right in your town – maybe right in your own bed – then just stay tuned until the next sweeps period. David Segal of the Washington Post was on NPR’s “On the Media��? program talking about [...]
A physician who teaches evidence-based medicine, and who is also a freelance health journalist, has been reading my thoughts about journalists advocating screening tests in the absence of evidence. She wrote me: “Here’s one of the more annoying recent examples, one that I actually used in class to illustrate the issue of patients coming in [...]
Don’t let the special interest campaign catch you napping! Dozens upon dozens of stories about Americans lacking sleep are popping up from news organizations all over the country this week, driven by another of the National Sleep Awareness Week campaigns of the National Sleep Foundation. Few – if any – of these stories will tell [...]
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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