Pap smears Under the headline, “Doctors Too Pap-Happy,” HealthDay reports: “Most primary care physicians advise women to get “Pap” tests for cervical cancer screening more often than clinical guidelines recommend, new research reveals.” PSA tests Reuters Health explained: “The American College of Physicians (ACP) became the latest group to ask doctors to be clear about [...]
We can’t always accommodate requests that come to us from followers, but when a journalist asked us to analyze a study on yoga and atrial fibrillation, we saw an opening. Harold Demonaco, MS, one of our story reviewers and active guest bloggers, offers his analysis. ———————————- I should point out that I have a conflict [...]
If you haven’t visited this site, you should. The latest post, for example, is “When should we start talking about it?” about palliative and hospice care. Other recent posts include: How the media reports on human trafficking is critical State Health Insurance Exchanges: Say What??? Calling All Nurse Writers Keeping Older Adults At Home The [...]
Hypertension has been and still is a significant public health problem. Today’s Vital Signs from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights the magnitude of the problem and provides some common sense approaches to improve the poor performance on the part of the healthcare delivery system. One of our story reviewers on HealthNewsReview.org, Harold [...]
The following is a guest post from Harold DeMonaco, MS, one of our story reviewers on HealthNewsReview.org. The opinions are his. ————————————————————————— In April of this year, I wrote a guest blog post in which I suggested that healthcare workers did not seem to be very good role models with regard to obesity. While a [...]
The following is a guest post by Harold DeMonaco, one of our expert editors on HealthNewsReview.org and Director of the Innovation Support Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital. —————————————————————————– While researching a totally different topic, I ran across a recent article published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic [...]
Association of Health Care Journalists annual conference, April 19, 2012, Atlanta View more PowerPoint from Gary Schwitzer Brandon Stahl of the Duluth News Tribune wrote a recap of the session for the Association of Health Care Journalists website.
JohnLaMattina, former Pfizer president of R & D, has an article on Forbes.com, “Maybe It’s Time for Drug Companies to Drop TV Ads.” In it, he reflects on: Paula Deen pushing a diabetes drug; the “intent and implication” of erectile dysfunction ads; and Dr. Robert Jarvik hawking Lipitor, among other topics. And he concludes: “If [...]
I don’t believe in change for the sake of change. I’ve been blogging for more than 7 years now, and my blog has gathered quite a following, with high rankings on Wikio.com and Technorati, for example. One competition named ours the “Best Medical Blog of 2009.” But there were good reasons for changing the name [...]
We won’t publish anything until November 29, when we introduce a new site with a new design and – more important – new functionality, including: • ability for users to comment on the systematic story reviews • story reviewers will be named, with links to brief bios • better separation of our story reviews (systematic, [...]
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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