Posted by Gary Schwitzer in Conflicts of interest, Health care journalism
CJR’s column, “Something’s Rotten in Roanoke,” raises some important questions, although it doesn’t answer any of them.
It is clear that the once formidable wall that once stood between the advertising departments and the news departments now looks like Swiss cheese in many news organizations.
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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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