Posted by Gary Schwitzer in Business of health, Health care costs, Health care journalism
This story has barely been touched by local Twin Cities news organizations. But a student journalist, Emma Carew, reported on it as her last story at the Minnesota Daily before graduating and before going to work for the Washington Post this summer.
As you’ll see, the story touches on issues of duplication of services, increased costs, competition and the medical arms race.
A 1,200-word story by a student journalist on an important topic for local discussion.
In the inquisitiveness and determination of young journalists, there is hope for health care journalism. This is one shining example.
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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Bill Gleason posted on May 7, 2009 at 8:09 am
And as a J-school prof, Gary, you had something to do with this…
As a comment on the article puts it:
“Emma – what a great story to end your time at The Daily with!! This reminds me of Schwitzer’s class. That was such a cool class and I think he would be proud of your story.”
As long as we have students/journalists/profs like you and Emma, there is still hope.
Best,
Bill