Collection of alerting services.

   

• Health Matters [ABC Australia]
• Health News Review
  HealthNewsReview.org is an attempt to help improve the accuracy, balance and completeness of news stories that make claims about new ideas in health care.
• Hitting the Headlines
  This News service is drawn from "Hitting the Headlines" produced for the NHS by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York. Hitting the Headlines offers an analysis of the evidence behind selected health stories reported in national newspapers. Summaries of news stories are posted within 48 hours of newspaper publication to ensure that health professionals and the public are better informed about the accuracy of reporting of research in the press.
• Journal Watch [Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford]
  "Journal Watch is written by Dr Richard Lehman and is a lighthearted review of the leading medical journals from a GP perspective. It is updated weekly.
• Media Doctor [Australia]
  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.
• Media Doctor [Canada]
  This Canadian site has the same objectives as the Australian site.