HealthNewsReview.org – Independent Expert Reviews of News Stories

HealthNewsReview.org – Independent Expert Reviews of News Stories

Health News Review includes reviews of health articles in the news.Their objective criteria includes these factors…

• What’s the total cost?
• How often do benefits occur?
• How often do harms occur?
• How strong is the evidence?
• Is this condition exaggerated?

• Are there alternative options?
• Is this really a new approach?
• Is it available to me?
• Who’s promoting this?
• Do they have a conflict of interest?

The Web site also includes a toolkit – “a number of tipsheets, primers, links and other resources to help journalists and consumers do a better job of evaluating claims about health care interventions”

• A list of tips for understanding studies.

• A collection of other resources for evaluating claims & analyzing news coverage

• A list of just some of the websites and blogs we like

• For journalists, we’ve posted a list of independent experts who can help them with their stories

• A HealthNewsReview.org widget – that you can display on your website – that posts headlines of the latest things published on our site

From their About Page

HealthNewsReview.org is a website dedicated to:

• Improving the accuracy of news stories about medical treatments, tests, products and procedures.
• Helping consumers evaluate the evidence for and against new ideas in health care.

We support and encourage the ABCs of health journalism.

• Accuracy
• Balance
• Completeness

Related Resources

How to Read a Research Paper (and also Understand Health News Research Items) (jflahiff.wordpress.com)

patientInform
 “The goal of patientINFORM is to allow patients, their family members and anyone interested in learning more about a specific disease or its treatment to access the most important new research articles through the web sites ofparticipating health organizations or publishers. Participating health organizations provide interpretation of research articles, in the form of summaries or news items written to be understood by nonphysician, nonscientist readers..

Understanding medical research (MedlinePlus) – links to overviews, related issues, and information from organizations

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