HealthNewsReview.org summary of the CBS Early Show segment on blue dye, rats, and spinal cord injury: The lasting value of this TV news segment on rats, candy and spinal cord injury may be that it allows us to coin a term for a chronic, pernicious condition long affecting health and medical journalism but not previously [...]
Journalist Maggie Mahar blogs: “I fear that the way the media has been reporting on reform has played a significant role in shaping the public’s perception of both the president and what some like to call “ObamaCare,” personalizing the issue, as if reform were merely the president’s favorite hobby-horse. Begin with coverage of health care [...]
From last week’s NPR program: A segment entitled “Blame Canada,” with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Maureen Taylor explaining what health care is really like north of the border. Excerpt: MIKE PESCA: What do Canadians make of how their health care system is being portrayed in the U.S. these days? MAUREEN TAYLOR: I think we’re actually [...]
Just read the headlines: Magic pill for spine injuries: blue M&Ms?Rocky Mountain Independent Blue Food Dye Treats Spinal Cord Injury?Ivanhoe M&M’s, Gatorade May Hold Key To Treating Spinal Cord InjuriesWDIV-TV Detroit Common, safe blue food dye may treat broken spinesReuters Perhaps the best because it emphasizes RATS in the headline: Blue Dye Halts Worsening Paralysis [...]
Another example of fawning coverage of medical technology. Another example of obsequious news on the DaVinci robotic surgical system, about which I’ve written earlier. (In fact, an earlier post just this week about the President playing with a robot at the Cleveland Clinic.) A story in The Oklahoman reports on a university medical center’s new [...]
This is one such example. Our good friends at ABC’s Good Morning America just keep coming up with new ways to brighten our mornings.
There’s a very important study published in the July 27 Journal of Clinical Oncology. But iif you read different news stories – or at least their headlines – you’d never know they were all about the same study. Perhaps the most clear story – and headline – came from Reuters Health. Headline: Many prostate cancers [...]
The Daily Dose on MSN tries to put our health news criteria to good use. Hat tip to Erica Jorgensen, editor at MSN Health & Fitness.
I’ve written about Dr. Nancy Snyderman’s form of health journalism many times. But on Daily Kos today, JD Wolverton posts an open letter to Snyderman about what he calls her “fluffy health care news show.” In it he writes: I’m disappointed with your take on health care reform and suppose you have come to your [...]
NPR explores an issue many others haven’t, reporting that in “three critical months, PhRMA and its member companies spent $40 million lobbying Congress. That’s more than $3 million each week.”
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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