Comments for HealthNewsReview.org https://www.healthnewsreview.org Mon, 31 Dec 2018 19:51:06 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on 6 reasons journalists should just say no to Mayo Clinic’s latest journalism ‘residency’ program by Peter Linn https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2018/12/6-reasons-journalists-should-just-say-no-to-mayo-clinics-latest-journalism-residency-program/#comment-260390 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 12:21:40 +0000 https://www.healthnewsreview.org/?p=182270#comment-260390 it’s absolutely true that Mayo pitches deceiving stories to local news. When I was a resident physician at Mayo, I was able to diagnose a very rare condition completely on my own. However, the credit was taken by my superiors who were not even present at the time of my visit with the patient and never heard of the patient’s story. In fact, the patient was looking for the physician who diagnosed her but was misled to believe that a staff consultant was the one. Mayo PR put an article into local news portraying its staff physician as a hero. Someone (not me) even pointed the error to the Mayo PR and a supevisors in the department but was immediately dismissed and never heard from PR specialists.
it IS a business serving its own interests FIRST, no doubt about that in my mind after training and working at Mayo for years.

]]> Comment on Reflections on a 45-year career and 13 years leading HealthNewsReview.org by Chad Parmet https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2018/12/reflections-on-a-45-year-career-and-13-years-leading-healthnewsreview-org/#comment-260388 Wed, 26 Dec 2018 16:51:08 +0000 https://www.healthnewsreview.org/?p=181647#comment-260388 Thank you, Gary, for 13 years of demanding better health information for all of us, for keeping score, and for serving as a role model of perseverance and fearless critical thinking. You’ve fought hard and you’ve made a huge difference.

]]> Comment on Reflections on a 45-year career and 13 years leading HealthNewsReview.org by Bill Adams https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2018/12/reflections-on-a-45-year-career-and-13-years-leading-healthnewsreview-org/#comment-260387 Tue, 25 Dec 2018 22:16:04 +0000 https://www.healthnewsreview.org/?p=181647#comment-260387 I have leaned much from the few years I have been reading HealthNewsReview and I am grateful for the education. It has helped me a better patient voice. The loss of HealthNewsReview is a loss for we the people and a gain for industrial medicine. I have hoped that somehow funds would be found to keep it going and maybe they still will be. Thanks, Gary, and to your team, for all of the great work! Have fun in the Cherry Garcia.

]]> Comment on ‘Soursop leaves can prevent the symptoms of fibromyalgia,’ tested in rats by Dan Keller https://www.healthnewsreview.org/news-release-review/soursop-leaves-can-prevent-the-symptoms-of-fibromyalgia-but-its-only-been-tested-in-rats/#comment-260386 Tue, 25 Dec 2018 15:50:51 +0000 https://www.healthnewsreview.org/?post_type=news-release-review&p=181882#comment-260386 It looks like this is the reference for the publication on which the news release is based. It pops right up on a search on Google Scholar:
PharmaNutrition
Volume 6, Issue 3, September 2018, Pages 81-84
Diets supplemented with Annona muricata improve the symptoms of fibromyalgia
Ana MariaQuilezaSergioMontserrat-de la PazbAngelesFernandez-ArcheaRocioDe la PuertaaMaria DoloresGarcia-Gimeneza

]]> Comment on A final HealthNewsReview.org report card from 3,200+ systematic reviews of health care news stories & PR releases by Gary Schwitzer https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2018/12/a-final-healthnewsreview-org-report-card-from-3200-systematic-reviews-of-health-care-news-stories-pr-releases/#comment-260385 Mon, 24 Dec 2018 21:00:34 +0000 https://www.healthnewsreview.org/?p=182125#comment-260385 They do appear, right here: https://www.healthnewsreview.org/charts/?single_source=The%20New%20York%20Times

Gary Schwitzer
Publisher

]]> Comment on A final HealthNewsReview.org report card from 3,200+ systematic reviews of health care news stories & PR releases by Pat McNees https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2018/12/a-final-healthnewsreview-org-report-card-from-3200-systematic-reviews-of-health-care-news-stories-pr-releases/#comment-260384 Mon, 24 Dec 2018 18:05:38 +0000 https://www.healthnewsreview.org/?p=182125#comment-260384 I am a little surprised that the New York Times doesn’t appear on your comparison of news organization grades. Can you explain that?

]]> Comment on Reflections on a 45-year career and 13 years leading HealthNewsReview.org by Jack Fowler https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2018/12/reflections-on-a-45-year-career-and-13-years-leading-healthnewsreview-org/#comment-260382 Sun, 23 Dec 2018 18:25:14 +0000 https://www.healthnewsreview.org/?p=181647#comment-260382 Well done, Gary.

]]> Comment on Reflections on a 45-year career and 13 years leading HealthNewsReview.org by James McCormack https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2018/12/reflections-on-a-45-year-career-and-13-years-leading-healthnewsreview-org/#comment-260381 Sun, 23 Dec 2018 17:20:04 +0000 https://www.healthnewsreview.org/?p=181647#comment-260381 Gary, you are the quintessential journalist – thorough, questioning and thoughtful. Please keep writing whenever you can.

]]> Comment on Reflections on a 45-year career and 13 years leading HealthNewsReview.org by Rob Rutherford https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2018/12/reflections-on-a-45-year-career-and-13-years-leading-healthnewsreview-org/#comment-260380 Sun, 23 Dec 2018 16:01:00 +0000 https://www.healthnewsreview.org/?p=181647#comment-260380 I’m just a regular old retired MD but I will miss the weekly emails and clear-eyed evaluation of medical “news”. I will forever look at broadcast and printed medical stories with a skeptical and, yes, often jaundiced eye. You have performed a valuable service for your readers. Thanks.

]]> Comment on Reflections on a 45-year career and 13 years leading HealthNewsReview.org by Tio https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2018/12/reflections-on-a-45-year-career-and-13-years-leading-healthnewsreview-org/#comment-260364 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 22:47:07 +0000 https://www.healthnewsreview.org/?p=181647#comment-260364 In a world in which we trade our attention online, companies are only looking for that to make a profit. And so, good journalism has little to no chance of surviving. Although I am just a reader (not a doctor, not patient, not a journalist) I have to thank you so much for your work, I learned so much from reading the articles you posted on this website and listen to your podcasts. I learned not only how health journalism is done, but how science journalism should be done. Thank you!

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