Health Alerting Services

• ABC Health & Wellbeing [Australia]
  The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's online health gateway.
• BBC News / Health UK Edition
• Behind the headlines. NHS Knowledge Service, UK
  This is a service that provides an unbiased and evidence-based analysis of health stories that make the news. It aims to respond to news stories the day they appear in the media.
• Drugs in the News
  This service examines reporting in Canada's 24 largest daily newspapers about five major prescriptions drugs launched in recent years. The report includes a journalist's guide to covering prescription drugs, as well as list of independent sources of drug information.
• 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.
• 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.