Delivery of health care news online removes many of the limitations of delivery in print. Space limitations are gone. They can be creatively addressed by providing links to more resources and to provide more context. But that often doesn’t happen – even by some news organizations considered to be the best. The New York Times [...]
“Between the Lines: Finding the Truth in Medical Literature,” by Marya Zilberberg, MD, MPH….and “The Patient Paradox: Why sexed-up medicine is bad for your health,” by Margaret McCartney, MD, are two books to add your reading list. I’ve written several times about smart blog posts by Zilberberg, an adjunct professor of epidemiology at U-Mass Amherst. [...]
The top trending health news story – with more than 400 stories showing up on a web search so far – is that of the Mississippi baby pronounced “functionally cured” of HIV infection. USA Today’s story included important caveats and perspective: Experts note that the girl’s story is also unique — involving a string [...]
Whether it would be psoriasis patients looking for new answers or investors looking for new prospects, news readers might have a difficult time making sense of a story about a trial of an experimental drug for psoriasis. It might depend on which story they read. Reuters reported: Celgene drug shown to be effective, safe in [...]
On Feb. 19, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, I’ll lead several sessions for the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Research in the Media workshop for Caribbean and U.S. based Hispanic journalists who are dedicated to reporting on cancer and health news. This is the fourth such international health journalism workshop I’ve worked on with the NCI; [...]
Health news this week is dripping with warm, gushing claims about the health benefits of chocolate – just in time for Valentine’s Day. Headlines such as: Chocolate – the love drug. Dark Chocolate & Red Wine – The food of love and health Chocolate is good for health and relationships. But one blogger wrote, “I [...]
I live in the Twin Cities, so I couldn’t avoid hearing about the University of Minnesota research paper in Nature this week, “APOBEC3B is an enzymatic source of mutation in breast cancer.” Had I lived anywhere else, I probably wouldn’t have heard anything about it. This laboratory finding was reported by the CBS TV station, [...]
“El periodismo biomédico en la era 2.0″ is the title of a booklet based on presentations at a 2011 International conference in Barcelona which has now been published and is available online. The website provides this background: Approximately 4,000 layoffs and 70 closures of media organizations in 2012 alone. This is the bleak picture that [...]
Just a few weeks ago, HealthNewsReview.org analyzed several stories on a study of berries and women’s heart health. In our review of a HealthDay story, we noted: The story quotes two independent experts, preventive cardiologist Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum and nutritionist Dana Greene. We wish that the experts were quoted on a more analytical view of [...]
This public radio program in Indiana interviewed me in response to the paper by John Ioannidis and colleagues in JAMA, “Empirical Evaluation of Very Large Treatment Effects of Medical Interventions.” You can listen to the 12-minute segment online. A few of the points I tried to make: Oftentimes, if it sounds too good to be [...]
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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