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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged American Heart Association

1. November 12, 2012 03:00 PM

   Take a beat

   Media pump too much news from heart association meeting, critic says

   By Curtis Brainard

   More than 10,000 stories came out of the annual meeting of the American Heart Association (AHA), which took place in Los Angeles last week, but it was the media’s ticker that was beating too fast and too hard, according to the media criticism website HealthNewsReview.org. The cardiac confab is always a big draw for journalists, and as with other scientific...

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2. January 6, 2011 01:20 PM

   Tele-what?

   Reporters must embrace the future with coverage of remote health monitoring

   By Neil Versel

   As a journalist who for the last decade has covered the use of information technology in health care, I’m rather disgusted at some of my brethren in the mass media. I’m none too happy with the medical establishment, either. Both seem hopelessly stuck in the past, refusing to look beyond the status quo. And the public suffers because of it....

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