New name for the old “Gary Schwitzer’s HealthNewsReview blog”
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There has been no need for the Watchdog to weigh in on the Planned Parenthood/Komen fiasco this week. We generally tend to write about things that otherwise might go un-noticed. This issue – deservedly – was inescapable this week in news stories and through social media. We remind you that we tend to focus on [...]
Because, in a nutshell, we find them all the same way – online. We don’t get ink on our fingers by reading a dozen or more newspapers every day. We – like an increasing number of people around the world – get our news online where blogs look just like stories from the newspaper, where [...]
As far as I can tell, Marilynn Marchione of the AP is the only mainstream news media journalist to report that “A study of Medicare records found that men treated with proton beams later had one-third more bowel problems, such as bleeding and blockages, than similar men given conventional radiation.” She reports that results “were [...]
The following is a guest post by Kevin Lomangino, one of our story reviewers on HealthNewsReview.org. He is an independent medical journalist and editor who is currently Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Nutrition Insight, a monthly evidence-based newsletter which reviews the scientific literature on nutrition for physicians and dietitians. He tweets as @Klomangino. ———————————————————————————————- Blogger Marilyn Mann [...]
Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, excerpts his new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care on the website of Scientific American. “problems confront anyone trying to navigate all the medical procedures, operations, prescription medications, vitamins, supplements, herbs, alternative treatments, over-the-counter products, and [...]
Not to be missed: last week’s BMJ published an analysis by a team at Dartmouth Medical School led by Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz – “Influence of medical journal press releases on the quality of associated newspaper coverage.” This is an important contribution to our understanding of the food chain of the dissemination of research [...]
As we close out the week and prepare to head to a beach for a desperately-needed mid-winter break, here are some catch-up items we meant to write about earlier. NPR interview with author of The Information Diet making the case for “conscious consumption of news and information.” We certainly make that case for health news [...]
We’ve long been admirers of the Croakey blog, run by Melissa Sweet in Australia. Now Croakey has a new project called The Naked Doctor. The site says: Naked Doctor aims to encourage discussion and awareness of the opportunities to do more for health by doing less. It is a compilation of articles, books and other [...]
Only when you track health news every day, as we have done for years, can you point to patterns of practice by certain news organizations. We have data to point out which news organizations are more likely to report from news releases. We have data to point out which news organizations are more likely to [...]
ABC News is in the midst of a major promotion of Dr. David Agus’ book, “The End of Illness.” In the course of their reporting, they sent Nightline host Bill Weir to see Agus, whom he referred to as “a rock star of science.” Weir had tests as part of his reporting and writes: As [...]
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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