CNN took advantage of President Obama being in Jordan last week to milk a story about the wonders of camel milk for all they could get out of it. The CNN reporter said: “It’s something we’ve been passionate about on this program for a long, long time. … Some people say camel’s milk is [...]
The authors of the paper in JAMA Internal Medicine, “Outcomes of Screening Mammography by Frequency, Breast Density, and Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy,” wrote: Controversy exists about the frequency women should undergo screening mammography and whether screening interval should vary according to risk factors beyond age. And concluded, as a result of the analysis they report: Women [...]
On the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, Paul Raeburn reflects on use of the word cure in reference to recent AIDS news. Excerpts: “Reporters who cover science and medicine often make the mistake, early in their careers, of reporting that somebody who has responded to a treatment has been “cured,” or that some medical advance or [...]
The Association of Health Care Journalists launched a new website – hospitalinspections.org – that has something to offer not only journalists but the general public as well. AHCJ says the site: “…aims to make federal hospital inspection reports easier to access, search and analyze. This site includes details about deficiencies cited during complaint inspections at [...]
Journalist Paul Tullis wrote a good synopsis of the workshop that Ivan Oransky and I led at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ 15th annual conference – held in Boston this year. The workshop drew the largest audience of any of the years we’ve done such a workshop at the AHCJ conference – an estimate [...]
I’ll be in Boston this week to co-lead a workshop at the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) annual conference (12:45 pm, Thursday) on how to improve news coverage of medical studies and research. This is, I think, the 6th such workshop I’ve been involved in at AHCJ annual conferences through the years. [...]
The surgeon who blogs and tweets as The Skeptical Scalpel (@Skepticscalpel) started my day with a Tweet that read: Houston Chronicle’s hard-hitting exposé on robotic surgery. http://is.gd/lT5ed4 You have to know his work and his style to know that he was being sarcastic about “hard hitting exposé.” The headline of the piece is: Advances in [...]
NPR’s Richard Knox has been around the block a few times – a veteran science journalist. And it shows in the way he covered a study pointing to an association – women who took aspirin had fewer diagnoses of melanoma. Emphasis on association, not causation. He allowed one of the author’s enthusiasm to come forth [...]
The American College of Cardiology holds its annual scientific sessions in San Francisco from March 9 – 13 this year. It is quite common for organizations like the ACC to send out news releases in advance of a meeting about papers that will be presented at the meeting. But it is uncommon for an organization [...]
Dr. Elizabeth Loder, who is a US research editor for the BMJ, blogged “How medical journals can help stop disease-mongering.” in the blog, Loder reflected on her recent participation on a panel I moderated at the Selling Sickness conference in Washington, DC. Joining Loder on the panel were Jocalyn Clark, PhD, of PLoS Medicine, and [...]
This story focuses on a family that may have a rare genetic mutation that increases their risk of heart disease. Unfortunately, the “rare” part wasn’t mentioned until 1,600 words into this 2,100 word story.
While this story adequately addressed 7 of our 10 criteria, the 3 on which it missed were significant omissions, yet could have been easily addressed.
Solid medical conference reporting, with many expert interviews and good context provided. Goes far beyond the conference presentation itself.
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