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Propaganda in ?Health News?: An Epidemic of Fake Health Stories

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A feature article in the March/April 2007 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review discusses and labels as an ?epidemic? the pervasive role hospitals play in producing and feeding stories that are essentially advertisements for themselves to television stations that run the stories as purported ?health news? on their local TV news programs. The stories chosen tend to promote expensive specialties and procedures like bariatric surgery for obesity and gamma knife surgery for brain cancer at the expense of stories about less profitable diagnoses, like AIDS or pneumonia, care for the uninsured, or critical stories such as hospital infection rates, medical mistakes or poor care.

Full post as published by Legal Blog on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).

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