New York Times writer Dana Jennings, who’s been publicly sharing his own story of prostate cancer, writes about a new book about someone else’s prostate cancer story. It’s “Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers,” by Ralph H. Blum and Dr. Mark Scholz. Jennings writes: “(The book) is a provocative and frank look at the bewildering world [...]
First, let me disclose to anyone who doesn’t know me that if you cut me open, I bleed green and gold and cheese for the Green Bay Packers. Because of this, and not despite this, I have remained one of Brett Favre’s biggest fans through the good times and the bad, and through his years [...]
The Recovery Room radio program out of North Carolina has a half hour program on HealthNewsReview.org and on the challenges of health journalism. The program features interviews with me and with Scott Hensley, of NPR’s health blog, “Shots.”
There are many stories journalists could report about conflicts of interest and questions about evidence in the treatment of low back pain, perhaps especially with spinal fusion. We talked about many of these with journalists from the American Society of News Editors in a workshop at the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making in Boston [...]
This week, the Twin Cities’ two major newspapers reported – in varying but incomplete ways – an announcement from Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota that it planned to cut up to 250 jobs by mid November. The Pioneer Press beat its larger crosstown competitor, the Star Tribune, by at least doing some original reporting [...]
e-patient Dave DeBronkart published a review/profile of our project on the website of the JOPM. Excerpts: “Why would someone interested in participatory medicine want to know about this? Learning to decode news articles about health and health care is essential to being a responsible driver of one’s health. It is impossible to act responsibly without [...]
And why are so many stories so unquestioning about these runaway surgical Twitter practices? Just look at this frame grab from a Google search showing all the stories (so far) on one hospital team’s surgical Twitter exploits. One story stated: “Senior hand fellows…when not actively involved in the surgery, sat at a laptop just outside [...]
The New York Times’ new public editor (or ombudsman), Arthur S. Brisbane, writes that his blog “opens with an entry in the field of science, something my mama told me never to do.” Actually, we hope to see much of this. His opening target: the paper’s own front-page story of Aug. 10 by science reporter [...]
This is a very important story. “Unfortunately,” as a Mayo Clinic physician says in the story, “this is something that isn’t well understood, not just by the public – but by physicians who order the tests.” Special focus was placed on the nuclear technologies of breast-specific gamma imaging and positron emission mammography. The story says [...]
Predictably, local media in Minneapolis-St. Paul are all over a news release from the University of Minnesota about lab experiments – we’re talking petri dishes not people – that showed a two drug combo impacted HIV. But KSTP-TV – the ABC station in the city – headlined this on its website as “U of M [...]
At least on the Chicago Tribune’s website, this story appeared in the Health section – not the local business or feature section. It didn’t address most of the things we think are crucial in a health story.
“Brown fat” has ignited a grease fire of media hype in recent weeks.This WebMD story missed a good opportunity to smother the flames.
We reviewed this story and a competing AP story on these new fibroid studies. Read and compare.
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