Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pointing to the journal's editorial turnovers (it has gone through four editors in the last eight years) as well as a recent episode involving a freelance writer who fabricated stories, some argue the traditionally liberal weekly has lost some of its ideological focus...
...Center for the Investigation and Treatment of Addiction, which pioneered the technique and opened its first clinic in Israel in 1993. It has since expanded and changed hands several times, franchising clinics in several countries and treating thousands of addicts--to a drumbeat of criticism. The British medical journal Lancet, for one, has blasted CITA for exploiting "the hopes and fears of opioid addicts and their families [and] for making exaggerated claims...
What prompted E.R.'s producers to air the ultrarapid detox drama? Critics point to an April article in the Wall Street Journal that detailed instances of TV shows being successfully lobbied by medical foundations and others to include dramatizations of specific diseases. In one example the Journal described how the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation wooed Dr. Neal Baer, an E.R. writer and producer, besieging him with studies on the increased risk of contracting AIDS for those with chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease--a risk that was then mentioned...
...though, comes word that high blood pressure can be destructive even in childhood. According to a report last week in the journal Circulation, 19 of 130 children with high blood pressure developed a dangerous thickening of the heart muscle that, in adults at least, has been linked to heart failure. "No one knows if this pattern holds true for younger patients as well," says Dr. Stephen Daniels, a pediatric cardiologist who led the study at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. "But it's worrisome...
Sources: American Society of Clinical Oncology and Journal of the American Medical Association; National Transportation Safety Board; American Society of Clinical Oncology; Food & Drug Administration