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ABC Science Online

"Harry Potter inspires blood type breakthrough"

ABC Science Online

02 May 2012

Rating: (2½ stars)

A scene from a Harry Potter film has inspired a new user-friendly device that literally spells out what blood type you are.
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Sydney Morning Herald

"Woman first heart patient to receive new 'scaffold' drug treatment"

Sydney Morning Herald

27 Apr 2012

Rating: (3½ stars)

An Australian woman has become the first person in the world to receive a new treatment hoped to prevent heart failure in thousands of people.
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ABC News Online

"Promising blood test for Alzheimer's"

ABC News Online

04 Apr 2012

Rating: (2 stars)

Newcastle researchers have shown the potential of a simple blood test to identify the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease in people, before symptoms appear.
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NineMSN

"Long use of hormones a cancer risk: study"

NineMSN

02 Apr 2012

Rating: (2 stars)

New research suggests that long-term use of any type of hormones to ease menopause symptoms can raise a woman's risk of breast cancer.
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The Courier Mail

"Obesity treated in the womb"

The Courier Mail

02 Apr 2012

Rating: (2½ stars)

OBESE mothers are being given diabetes pills to reduce the chance of them having a fat baby. In a world first trial, 400 overweight pregnant women in the UK and Scotland will be prescribed metformin - a drug that has been used for decades to treat...
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second opinion

Some tips for covering genetic testing and treatment technologies

by Adam Carroll, MDA Reviewer and PhD scholar

Breakthrough Diagnosis; Genetic Screen; Rare Disorder; New Hope: great words to capture attention...
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Weigh up benefits and risks

by Amanda Wilson

With any story about adverse events or side-effects with a drug, there is the potential to scare...
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The annual lifecycle of the medical researcher as told through health news stories

by Amanda Wilson

A quick analysis of stories rated and posted on Media Doctor Australiathis years shows a rather...
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news

'Bad' medical reporting - a history of shooting the messenger?

06 May 2012

This story published recently by The Conversation discusses the quality of reporting health news in...
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Some media outlets do better than others when it comes to health news

04 Mar 2012

2012 has started as a great year for health news reporting, according to the Media Doctor Australia...
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Media Doctor puts out call for help

04 Mar 2012

At Media Doctor Australia funding has always been tight.

For this reason, we can only look on...
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what media doctor is

Media Doctor is a website dedicated to improving the accuracy of media reports about new medical treatments.

Media Doctor reviews current news items about medical treatments, assesses their quality using a standardised rating scale and presents reviews of good and bad examples of reports on this website. It is anticipated that these independent and objective critiques will improve journalistic practices in reporting new medications and treatments in Australia.

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what media doctor is not

Media Doctor does not provide medical advice, and does not assess the quality of the evidence on which the stories are based; instead we concentrate on the articles themselves. For more information on the treatments featured on this site, visit our links page.

who is media doctor?

The team behind Media Doctor consists of a group of academics and clinicians from the Newcastle Institute of Public Health, who have an interest in promoting better and more accurate reporting in the area of medical treatments.

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