U.S. Reporters Often Do A Poor Job Of Reporting About New Medical Treatments, Analysis Finds
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 09:14
in Health & Medicine
Most medical news stories about health interventions fail to adequately address costs, harms, benefits, the quality of evidence and the existence of other treatment options, finds a new analysis in this week's PLoS Medicine. The analysis was conducted by Gary Schwitzer from the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication.