A Biopsy of Health in the News

I would like to briefly revisit a previous blog: A Tracking Device on a Press Release.  A comment from Chris van Opstal made the important point that the issue with reporting stories on AIDS in Africa, is finding some new angle - a REASON - to report the story everyone already feels they know.
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Studying the reporting of health in the news and current affairs media over the past weeks has revealed an important element of this news sector - the audience of health reports seems to be different from that of other beats.
When I say “different”, I mean in purpose, rather than demographics. While many news articles are written […]

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As one of the most common forms of illness, cancer is heavily reported on within the news. The reasons for the reports are varied, and putting prominent deaths aside, preliminary studies have revealed the reporting of cancer seems to be dominated by new scientific breakthroughs that lead us ever closer to a cure, or alternately, […]

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On December 8 Doctors Without Borders released a press release announcing the newest available AIDS drugs are remaining unavailable in Africa because the involved pharmaceutical companies are choosing not to sell them in the region, and generic versions of the drugs do not exist. These drugs were laid out in the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) […]

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