Category Archives: Medical reporting

Freedom for what? To kill young women?

November 19, 2011 – 11:42 am

Tweet As regular readers of this blog know, the Daily Mail believe that the vital importance of a free press is an excuse for anything they want to do. The confluence of reporting and commentary is so insidious and malevolent. Many newspapers are guilty but the Mail is the biggest culprit. For me, one of [...]

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What’s your poison?

October 26, 2011 – 10:54 pm

Tweet The wonderful people behind the NHS Behind the headlines section have released their first in-depth report on how media coverage impacts public perception of a particular medical issue – in this case, alcohol. The report – What’s Your Poison: A sober analysis of alcohol and health in the media – examines the media’s relationship [...]

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‘Scare over miscarriage scans unjustified’

October 17, 2011 – 9:23 pm

Tweet From the NHS Behind the headlines blog: Several news sources have today reported that errors during early-pregnancy ultrasounds are leading to unnecessary abortions. The Daily Mail said that hundreds of babies a year may die due to ‘blunders’ in testing and the Metro said that unreliable tests caused a baby to die every day… [...]

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Do computer games leave children with ‘dementia’?

October 14, 2011 – 7:41 pm

Tweet Daily Mail headline: ‘Computer games leave children with ‘dementia’ warns top neurologist’. The first two paragraphs of the article: Children’s brains could be left damaged and they could suffer temporary ‘dementia’ by playing computer games, a leading scientist has warned. Eminent neurologist Baroness Susan Greenfield said yesterday that spending time online gaming and browsing [...]

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The Unacceptable state of medical reporting

October 18, 2010 – 7:13 pm

Tweet A recent study found that when compression-only CPR was conducted by bystanders with the assistance of a dispatcher the survival rate of victims suffering from cardiac arrest improved. The NHS Behind the headlines team point out that the researchers ‘do not advocate from their findings that people should make a deliberate decision to avoid [...]

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