Health Tips

Many active gym goers would like to have a toned or ripped stomach. The only problem is some of those individuals don’t have the knowledge of how to get those rock hard abs.

from: http://sayyestoweightloss.com/weight-loss/methods-to-succesfully-develop-those-ripped-abs/

There are many stories journalists could report about conflicts of interest and questions about evidence in the treatment of low back pain, perhaps especially with spinal fusion. We talked about many of these with journalists from the American Society of News Editors in a workshop at the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making in Boston in May.

John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel hammers one of these issues, looking at how Medtronic’s Infuse product “went from revolutionary advance to public health alert.”

Here’s his story on MedPageToday.com.

His entire “Side Effects: Money, Medicine and Patients” series is indexed on the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel website.

The image below is from the Journal-Sentinel’s online story.

from: http://www.healthnewsreview.org/blog/2010/08/story-of-medtronics-infuse-product—from-revolutionary-advance-to-public-health-alert.html

The Recovery Room radio program out of North Carolina has a half hour program on HealthNewsReview.org and on the challenges of health journalism. The program features interviews with me and with Scott Hensley, of NPR’s health blog, “Shots.”

from: http://www.healthnewsreview.org/blog/2010/08/radio-program-on-healthnewsrevieworg-health-journalism.html