In more than 7 years of blogging about health care messages affecting the public dialogue, I don’t think I’ve ever written before about radio call-in programs. But this one hit pretty close to home. Nothing makes me more upset than people fear-mongering and lying about health care to suit their own interests. I don’t listen [...]
We should not overlook the Journal of Clinical Oncology editorial (opens as pdf file) that accompanied the robotic prostatectomy side effects paper about which we’ve already blogged. That editorial – by 3 authors from the University of California San Francisco cancer center – reminds readers that the costs of robotic prostatectomy (on average, they say, [...]
A sleigh led by a dog. Hey, the red-nosed reindeer had nothing on this mutt. Like Rudolph’s maiden voyage with the fat man, this is the Watchdog’s first time hosting the Wonk Review. So buckle up for a wild ride. Man, there’s a lot in Santa’s bag: unbundling the bundle in the jungle, [...]
Here are two perspectives on last week’s NIH State-of-the-Science Conference: Role of Active Surveillance in the Management of Men With Localized Prostate Cancer. The first is from one of our HealthNewsReview.org medical editors, Richard M. Hoffman, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Staff Physician at the [...]
I’m very pleased that HealthNewsReview.org – and our associated blog – were mentioned in an Institute of Medicine book, “Patients Charting the Course: Citizen Engagement in the Learning Health System.“ The book is a summary of a workshop by IOM’s Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care. Its description: “As past, current, or future patients, [...]
Lest anyone think that the recent studies showing how marketing is driving up the use of robotic prostatectomy (see yesterday’s post, “Ads & news (often resembling ads) fuel growing use of robotic prostatectomy“) is just academic hypothesis, let me roll out what promoters often do – an anecdote. After yesterday’s post, a physician (who wished [...]
That’s a phrase used by Rita F. Redberg, MD, University of California San Francisco cardiologist and the editor of Archives of Internal Medicine, in her New York Times opinion piece, “Squandering Medicare’s Money.” Excerpt: Medicare spends a fortune each year on procedures that have no proven benefit and should not be covered. Examples abound: • [...]
It’s been a long week. Time to end with some humor on two hot-button health care terms. We are confident you will be amused, if not better informed, after watching these:
The updated sixth edition of the Alliance sourcebook is now available online. When I taught health journalism at the University of Minnesota I always gave students copies of this book, filled with fast facts, background, tips for reporters, story ideas, experts’ contact information, links to polls on health issues, and links to local news stories [...]
The following is a guest post submitted by Harold DeMonaco, director of the Innovation Support Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital and one of our most active expert story reviewers on HealthNewsReview.org.————————————————————————————————————————Last week’s New England Journal of Medicine had two rather provocative and thought provoking perspectives. The first relates to a decision by the Center [...]
It’s difficult to do an overview of melanoma drug research in a relatively brief story. But this story did a solid job.
Better than a competing piece by Reuters but still a little short on some details about this asthma drug study.
An adequate summary of this asthma drug trial’s design doesn’t make up for the overly optimistic tone about the drug’s future. A New York Times story was better.
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