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Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Tucked into one of Nikhil Krishnan's recent newsletters is a photograph of Hillary Clinton glancing distressingly at a kitchen in a public housing unit, a visit paid [...]

The Beta Research Corp conducted a research on the role of media in women's health care decisions. The report revealed that decisions were influenced by direct-to-consumer advertising with the internet closely following.

Newspeople participating in discussions at the Society of Professional Journalists' 1994 convention agreed that there is no shortage of healthcare news and that adequate print space and airtime is devoted to the topic. But they also acknowledged that it can be challenging to decipher detailed and biased information to make it accessible to average readers.

A wave of inflammatory ads bashing President Obama 's health care plan has prompted liberal groups to push back with letters, petitions and calls for media outlets to pull the [...]

Two major journalism groups have issued a joint warning to news outlets to avoid ethical problems that can arise through cozy relationships with health care outlets and hospitals. The Association [...]

The New Yorker magazine's current issue includes a cartoon somewhat similar to a cartoon done a couple of years ago by Jeff Darcy of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland. Each [...]

Sensible reporting of many health related issues is a rarity, passed over in favour of sensationalist, viewer-grabbing headlines that serve to clarify and to confuse or to provide false hope in the general press. Further, the nurses constantly pay the price for the misleading and contradicting inaccuracies of the media.

Newspapers are supposed to 'report'' the news, not 'create'' it, said a letter from the two most powerful men in health care in the state, which was published last week [...]

With the flu season just around the corner, news of a flu-vaccine shortage in the US (due to the closing of a British manufacturing plant) has received significant broadcast media [...]

DOCTORS are increasingly facing media scrutiny over their treatment of patients, a new survey has revealed. The often unexpected approaches by journalists can leave doctors, unused to dealing with the [...]

Stephanie Stricklen wasn't sure what she was getting herself into 18 months ago when she accepted the job of medical reporter at KGW-TV, the NBC affiliate in Portland, Ore. A [...]

The other day, I was attending a business social gathering. While making the rounds, meeting and greeting colleagues and guests from the pharmaceutical industry, I was engaged in at least [...]

I've been publisher of this magazine for more than 25 years. In that time I've had the privilege of working with many talented individuals who have made Modern Healthcare the [...]

Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center and Bethany Birth Center will be featured this month on Discover Health's Birth Day program that brings viewers inside the lives of caregivers and patients [...]

In our piece on self-help books on May 19th, we referred to Dorothy Rowe, a psychologist, as a psychiatrist. There is, she points out, a big difference: a psychiatrist can [...]

Arnold Shapiro Productions is shooting two television documentaries at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. One show will focus on nurses and their role in health care, while [...]

Dear Editor: Despite the inflammatory comments of a plaintiff's attorney in an article in the South Florida Business Journal's April 13-19 issue entitled 'Jury Finds for Cargo Line Worker,' we [...]

Are you working (too) hard??? In the Birmingham, N.Y., Sunday Mercury (Jan 7, 2001) this headline appeared: Worker dead at desk for 5 days Bosses of a publishing firm are [...]

OPINIONS, SUGGESTIONS, SOLUTIONS, AND MORE GET A GRIP, BUT NOT ON THAT CUP C'mon people get a grip. There are people in the third world ill clad, ill fed, and […]

I fully intend watching the BBC2 programme `Patients and Pharmacists Working Together', on December 12, but a video recording it will have to be because 5.30am is a little too [...]

Years ago, a person's experience with the 'health care system' involved seeing a general practitioner, with perhaps an occasional trip to the hospital. Now, the G.P. has become a 'primary [...]

The chairwoman of Sisters of Mercy Health System-St. Louis, Sister Mary Roch Rocklage, graces the cover of the October issue of Hospitals & Health Network. 'Sister Roch' -- chair-elect of [...]

POLIO VACCINE RECALLED The Medicines Control Agency has ordered the recall of the remaining stocks of the Medeva oral polio vaccine, as a precautionary measure following a breach of production [...]

* A headline in the Oct. 16 'Week in Healthcare' section (p. 52) placed two rural hospitals in the wrong state. They are in North Dakota. * A caption with [...]

With only token opposition to the proposed Joint Operating Agreement between The Denver Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post, more News staffers are looking around for new cheese. The [...]

DAVID LANGNESS Director, health sciences communications, UCLA Medical Center I would first invite the reporter to spend a shift in the emergency room to give her an appreciation for the [...]

The cover photo for the May 15 issue was taken by Todd Hochberg of Advocate HealthCare's Media Center, Park Ridge, [...]