Word: journalism
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Some of my colleagues jumped on the news. In his lead story on ABC World News Tonight, Peter Jennings called the report "the very best news [about Alzheimer's] there has been in many years, perhaps ever." The Wall Street Journal ran a more skeptical, enterprising piece, but it too gave top billing to the story. Normally cautious neuroscientists were genuinely enthusiastic, but somehow their sound bites came across as overly optimistic...
...tubes or on laboratory animals--to be turned into safe and effective drugs. And that's only if there are no major setbacks or surprises. More often than not, these big advances in basic research don't go anywhere at all. So when I read a report in the journal Nature last week about a possible breakthrough in Alzheimer's research, I found myself once again negotiating a tightrope between real promise and false hope. One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's is the formation of sticky clumps of protein, called amyloid plaques, in the brains of affected patients. Scientists...
...JUST A SCRATCH While young people ages 11 to 21 compose 15% of the U.S. population, they make up only 9% of those who visit doctors, the journal Pediatrics reported last week. The reason is not so much good health or poverty, but rather that young people consider it "uncool" to seek medical attention. Yearly checkups are essential so physicians can find and treat chronic conditions. And since the teen suicide rate has more than doubled in the past 20 years, an appointment also gives doctors a chance to screen for depression...
...chip in more money, Lockheed Martin announced Thursday it wouldn?t be upping its 1 percent investment any time soon. Iridium will miss its next interest payment to bondholders, and its bankers have given it until August 11 to come up with a new business plan. The Wall Street Journal has nicknamed the company "Icarus." What went wrong? TIME business writer Karl Taro Greenfeld says Iridium showed up at the telecom party a little too early...
Medical researchers believe they may have found a powerful predictor of heart disease, the health problem with the highest mortality rate in the nation. A study of 5,621 men and women over 65 published in Thursday?s New England Journal of Medicine reveals that the presence of a benign condition known as aortic valve sclerosis may be associated with a 50 percent higher risk of death from heart disease. The finding is significant because the condition, a hardening or thickening of a tiny heart valve, ?is incredibly common among the elderly,? says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. About...