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U.S. turned a ‘blind eye’ to organ trafficking
ProPublica’s Emily Witt has attempted to figure out how the live-donor organ trafficking scheme exposed in the recent massive New…
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Schwitzer: One-sided push for screening wrong
On his Schwitzer health news blog, University of Minnesota journalism professor, HealthNewsReview.org editor and AHCJ member Gary Schwitzer reminds journalists…
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Parikh: HuffPo + Northrup = half-baked story
In a continuation of his critique of the Huffington Post’s health coverage, Dr. Rahul Parikh chastises the online news outlet…
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Hospital space a victim of H1N1 in New Zealand
In what could be a preview of things to come in the Northern Hemisphere, Bloomberg’s Jason Gale writes that, while…
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Journal Sentinel: STATS not as impartial as it claims
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s Susanne Rust and Meg Kissinger make the case that George Mason University-affiliated STATS, a media watchdog…
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AIDS advocates: Obama needs to use leverage
The Chicago Tribune‘s Tom Hamburger reports that several global health advocacy organizations, including Doctors without Borders and OxFam International, have…
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Reporters work to debunk health care myths
Some folks haven’t seemed particularly receptive to anything that doesn’t advance their agenda (see town hall meetings and editorial pages…
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Insurers wade (calmly) into the town hall fray
The Wall Street Journal‘s Vanessa Fuhrmans and Avery Johnson shed some light on the insurance industry’s low-key effort to ensure…
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Lieberman, Schwitzer on Health Policy, coverage
FAIR, a media watch group, interviewed AHCJ members Trudy Lieberman and Gary Schwitzer in an attempt to cut through the…
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Some women’s magazines model poor baby care
Children’s National Medical Center researchers Dr. Rachel Moon and Brandi Joyner looked at pictures of sleeping babies in 28 magazines…