Television and newspaper reports of new medications often ignore the drugs鈥�
drawbacks and exaggerate their benefits, according to a study of 180 newspaper
stories and 27 TV reports on an osteoporosis drug, a cholesterol-lowering
medication and aspirin. Fewer than half of the reports mentioned the drugs鈥� side
effects, and 40 per cent did not provide any quantitative evidence of their
benefits (The New England Journal of Medicine, vol 342, p 1645).
鈥淓ditors want the medical miracle,鈥� says Ray Moynihan, a medical reporter who
initiated the study while on a fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
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