Posted by Gary Schwitzer in H1N1, Health care journalism
CBS’ Harry Smith.
CNN’s Sanjay Gupta.
Some UK reporter.
Hasn’t anyone from The Onion been stricken yet?
Stay tuned for next week’s episode: “The cure for journalistic narcissism.”
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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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healthcareandlife.com posted on October 5, 2009 at 2:14 am
Good perspective. It really hits the headline when such incidences occur as they have got the power to spread the info quickly; but some times they just add to panic volumes…