History
The Founder and Publisher is Gary Schwitzer, a health care journalist for more than four decades who is now an Adjunct Associate Professor in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. The project's 10-point grading scale includes whether a story gives information about its sources and their competing interests, quantifies the benefits of a treatment, and appraises the evidence supporting the story's claims.Operations
In its first 22 months, the website reviewed 500 news stories, and found that they usually failed to discuss evidence quality, alternative options, costs, and absolute sizes of benefits and harms. At that time, the editors of the journal PLoS Medicine wrote: "Schwitzer's alarming report card of the trouble with medical news stories is thus a wake-up call for all of us involved in disseminating health research-researchers, academic institutions, journal editors, reporters, and media organizations-to work collaboratively to improve the standards of health reporting." In 2011, theDiscontinued
After 13 years in operation, the publication ceased regular daily updates in 2018, and posted a notice on its website, indicating that it would continue to keep old articles available online "for a couple of years" and that the publisher and contributors might post occasional new articles."Note to our followers,"References
External links
*{{official website, http://healthnewsreview.org/ American review websites Media analysis organizations and websites American medical websites