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Schwitzer Health News Blog
If I had a tagline it would be something like: "An aging health care journalist spews daily."Information
| Url: | http://blog.lib.umn.edu/schwitz/healthnews/ |
| Author(s): | Gary Schwitzer |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | health journalism, health policy, disease mongering |
| Description: | Daily dose of observations about health care, health policy, or the health journalism done on these topics. |
| Ratings |  (6 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 61 Followers |
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Clergyman-blogger unleashes criticism of CNN for disease-mongering story
| I love it when I see smart people blogging their critiques of health care news coverage. So I say "Hallelujah" in response to a hospital-chaplain-blogger's rant about a news story run by ...more |
2009-12-17
THE most jumbled, confusing breast cancer screening info I've seen in the news
| I've seen a lot of awful news coverage on breast cancer screening in the past month or so, but the award (so far) for the worst, most useless, misinformation goes to the CBS Early Show. See why. ht...more |
2009-12-17
Time to "tone down the sky is falling" on H1N1?
| Physician-bioethicist Jeffrey Hall Dobken suggests that "perhaps we can tone down the sky-is-falling just a bit" on H1N1. And he includes news coverage in his review of the "tension....more |
2009-12-16
Understanding the USPSTF breast screening guidelines
| The National Breast Cancer Coalition is offering an online webcast tomorrow to clear up confusion on the recent USPSTF breast cancer screening recommendations. They ask that interested parties regi...more |
2009-12-16
Local TV news' love affair with scanning and screening
| http://www.healthnewsreview.org/blog/2009/12/the-trifecta-of-tv-health-news-stories-scanners-screening-reporter-involvement.html... |
2009-12-15
Editorial says coronary artery calcium CT screening "unproven, probably enormously wasteful, co
| http://www.healthnewsreview.org/blog/2009/12/questions-about-coronary-artery-calcium-ct-scans.html... |
2009-12-14
Health/medical journalism? Or plagiarism?
| In the past two weeks, I've discovered three examples of health/medical stories apparently being lifted directly from news releases. One on WebMD and two on HealthDay - here and here. This isn't jo...more |
2009-12-10
CBS, Sanjay Gupta, tell heart-warming but terribly incomplete story on Berlin Heart
| Warm, touching, but inadequate story of a pro football player's daughter and her path to a heart transplant. The story claims that a heart pump saved the girl's life - when that can't be proven. It...more |
2009-12-10
CNN anchor endorses screening all 6th graders as "worth it"
| Amazing. Do they plan this editorializing in editorial meetings as a way to compete with/resemble Fox News? http://www.healthnewsreview.org/blog/2009/12/cnn-fear-mongering-screening-advocacy-on-kid...more |
2009-12-09
Tamiflu troubles
| As British physician-writer Ben Goldacre put it: "Tamiflu is pretty marginal as a treatment, and crap as prophylaxis: as we basically already knew."... |
2009-12-08
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