On a trip to NYC last week, I visited Ivan Oransky at Scientific American. This week he announced he is leaving SciAm to become executive editor of Reuters Health. I also visited Diana Mason, editor of the American Journal of Nursing. She announced that yesterday was her last day on that job. Diana will have [...]
Interesting look at international coverage of the H1N1 flu story in a new analysis by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. They studied 12 days of front-page newspaper coverage in seven countries around the world. Key points from their summary: • The three major U.S. papers studied offered some of the broadest coverage of the [...]
I meant to post this on Memorial Day. But, in keeping with the theme, better late than never. One of our health journalism grad students, Dr. Kay Schwebke, had a terrific article in the American Journal of Nursing in May, “The Vietnam Women’s Memorial: Better Late Than Never.” The article was based on her capstone [...]
This is a troubling trend. HealthNewsReview.org has now reviewed four stories based on abstracts for the American Society for Clinical Oncology meeting that won’t even be held until next week. Woloshin & Schwartz wrote the excellent paper pointing out the flaws of drawing conclusions from presentations at scientific meetings, but this stuff hasn’t even been [...]
I was very fortunate this week to meet – in total – with more than 100 very smart people who are dedicated to quality improvement in health journalism. My visit to New York included: • a talk to the NY chapter of the Association of Health Care Journalists at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. [...]
The Science News Cycle depicted on PhD Comics. Thanks to my student Stephanie for the tip.
Read David Williams’ blog posting about the USA Today story, “In patients’ hunt for care, doctor database ‘a place to start’“.
This may be a trend. And if so, it’s a troubling one. On HealthNewsReview.org, we’ve just posted a review of a Wall Street Journal story that we characterize as “Another story that lets a drug company get away with making superiority claims without releasing data.” Many news orgs let the makers of Provenge get away [...]
Dr. Jennifer Ashton, CBS news medical correspondent, in an interview on the Columbia j-school site, says: “The people who are really at the forefront of medical media and medical correspondents – they are physicians.” I couldn’t disagree more. Hundreds of non-physician journalists have toiled on this complex beat far longer, with more dedicated fulltime effort, [...]
A healthy online discussion has begun over the Woloshin-Schwartz paper, published in last week’s Annals of Internal Medicine, that concluded: “Press releases from academic medical centers often promote research that has uncertain relevance to human health and do not provide key facts or acknowledge important limitations.” On the Columbia Journalism Review website, Earle Holland – [...]
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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