Search Results for "off-label"
Bad week for Good Morning America
In a little more than a week, 3 health segments on ABC’s Good Morning America received pretty bad reviews from health care and journalism observers on HealthNewsReview.org. All 3 stories are currently on the site’s home page. The story, “Cutting Edge Nail Cure” got one of our rare, lowest, zero-star scores: The advantages were unsubstantiated, […]
1/28/2008Cheers & jeers for health care journalists
The Integrity in Science Watch project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest has a weekly e-newsletter that includes cheers and jeers for certain aspects of health care journalism. This week’s: * Jeer to Alicia Chang of the Washington Post for failing to mention that the authors of a study supporting the off-label […]
10/17/2006Newspapers Lift Wire Stories, But May Miss the Best of the Original Story
Journalists already know this, but many news consumers may not. What you read in your local newspaper or its website may be a considerably-shortened version of a story that was written by someone in another city who put a lot more work into the original than what you see. Here’s an example of what can […]