With so much news coming out about health these days, many people may feel a bit overwhelmed.
Fortunately, help may be at your fingertips. A new Web site, HealthNewsReview.org, is designed to support excellence in health and medical news reporting by grading stories on accuracy, balance and completeness.
“Health care consumers who use HealthNewsReview.org will learn how to look for evidence in any claim made by any source, including news stories,” said Professor Gary Schwitzer of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication and publisher of the Web site. “Readers will become not only smarter consumers of health care but smarter consumers of news,” he added.
A team of impartial reviewers at the site assesses the quality of the health stories that run in the nation’s top 50 newspapers, the evening network newscasts, Associated Press wire services and weekly news magazines using a standardized rating system. The team includes medical and public health professionals, journalists and researchers. Funded by the nonprofit Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, the site does not provide medical...
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