Posted by Gary Schwitzer in Health care journalism
FoxNews reported, “Viagra for Women May Be Coming Soon.”
ABCNews.com headlined, “Are We a Step Closer to a Viagra for Women?”
HealthDay relied on a news release for its material and quotes.
All of this was about a study in rabbits.
And none of the stories even blinked in the direction of disease-mongering of “female sexual dysfunction.”
It doesn’t get any better than this many days in health news these days.
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Overall, this was an easy-to-follow summary. But there was a clear difference between this and a competing Boston Globe story, which did a better job offering context and analysis.
This Boston Globe blog post gave its audience a more thorough understanding of an emerging approach to virtual colonoscopy than the Wall Street Journal.
Longer, but overall not any better, than the coverage from the competing LA Times story. Not thorough enough to explain what this preliminary research actually means for readers–which is not much at this point.
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Joseph Arpaia, MD posted on April 15, 2010 at 8:04 pm
CAn someone let me know why RABBITS need something to increase sexual arousal. And how could you tell it had increased?