Category: Your Health Matters

(2 stars)
The headline sounds definitive. The research is not.

(2 stars)
The story begins with a first sentence that is simply inaccurate:

(0 stars)
This is shovelware – straight from a hospital news release into a slapped-together

(2 stars)
CNN chose to label this as a breakthrough. We wish they had simply provided more balance.

(2 stars)
This was an unbalanced story touting

(2 stars)
This story trumpeted a very small study tracking brain plaque changes through a new imaging technology but without any discussion of impact on peoples’ lives. When it comes to Alzheimer’s Disease, that’s an important omission.

(3 stars)
For a story that said this studies on stents vs. surgery to prevent stroke would guide patient preference.

(4 stars)
Two procedures. Two studies. Two very different outcomes. In competing coverage of

(3 stars)
One of four stories we reviewed on this same study. It would have taken only a few minor additions to make this a 5-star story.

(4 stars)
A generally well-done piece with appropriate context and caveats.

(3 stars)
This story plays editorial ping pong with readers, sprinkling a few caveats in between exaggerated claims that go beyond the scope of the petri dish research.

(3 stars)
Too much excitement –