Podcast 14: News roundup and interview with Dr. Michael Hochman about his JAMA paper on how the news media cover drug research.

The week ending Oct. 3, 2008, was relatively slow for medical news, but crammed with news of every other sort. This week’s interview features Michael Hochman, a third-year resident in internal medicine who has just published a paper on how the media cover research on new drugs. It seems they don’t make a habit of reporting funding sources.

Journal Watch links:

• AHA Recommends Screening Patients with Coronary Heart Disease for Depression
• News Media Coverage of Drug Trials Faulted

Journal links:

• Circulation article on screening
• Simple screening questionnaire

Interview links:

• JAMA abstract

Science link:

• Scientific illustration

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