Category: Your Health Matters

(3 stars)
This story is one of three we reviewed about thepublished study. In the quotes used and the framing, this story is perhaps overly enthusiastic about this extremely preliminary research.

(1 stars)
Maybe the biggest problem with this story is that a complicated topic like this deserves – indeed, requires – more than 215 words.

(5 stars)
This story is the best of the three we reviewed about thepublished study. It provides balance and caution to the findings.

(3 stars)
A health care journalist wrote on Twitter today,

(3 stars)
We almost feel like we’re grading an American Academy of Neurology news release, because that’s where all of the information – including quotes – in this story apparently came from.

(3 stars)
The story starts with a headline and first sentence that say the diet

(4 stars)
The best of three stories we reviewed on the same study.

(4 stars)
News on devices to cool-treat Reasonable balance, but doesn’t emphasize potential harms and the total lack of evidence for health benefits.

(5 stars)
We see so many stories that make unfounded claims about observational studies. It is refreshing to see one that put findings in perspective so well.

(2 stars)
Start with a misleading headline and follow with a simple review of a complicated study of a complicated issue in medicine – a story that mischaracterizes the study’s conclusions and its limitations.

(5 stars)
This paper continues its excellent series of stories on autism controversies with this report.

(4 stars)
We appreciate the Healthy Skeptic column in this paper. And this is another fine example of why we feel that way.