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What Delacourt describes as mocking derision from the Tory benches prevented Bennett from completing a question regarding risk of exposure to adjuvants within the vaccine for pregnant women.
"This isn't funny," shouts a grimacing Bennett in a video uploaded by the Liberals on You Tube. (A longer version with the full question was uploaded here)
The incident can be found spinning through the blogs at Impolitical, Dr. Dawg and Broadsides (Antonia Zerbisias, Warren Kinsella, and online news fora at CBC, Macleans and the Globe and Mail.
Health and Environment Reporting in a Connected World is a day-long event at the University of British Columbia. It features panels on sustainability, pandemics and the future of science journalism.
David Secko, conference presenter and journalism professor at Concordia University in Montreal, will report highlights from the conference for J-source.
Subtly wrapped in a response to a question to 11 expatriate Canadians about what they miss most about living in Canada, Long closes the article by declaring it was snow that he missed. The sort of snow he grew up with in Exeter, Ontario, the midwestern region just north of London and known for its prodigious piles of the white stuff.
"Yes, I know the United States gets snow," he writes. "But to my Canadian eye, American snow is like American health care: sporadic, unreliable and distributed unevenly among the population."
Happy Canada Day!
Some (including this medical librarian) noted the uproar is actually a bit of a hair-split within the complicated (and perhaps compromised) slippery slope in commercial trade publishing that starts at peer-review journals and terminates at single-sponsor, targeted "educational" custom publishing.
Laika's medlib log notes that anyone seeing the publication, despite its medical advisory board and fancy sounding name, would know it for what it was -- a "throwaway" -- the insider medical term for the glossy "educational" materials distributed for free by drug companies.
This science blogger's rant on the issue neatly captures the defining features of the throwaway, as well as the frustration experienced by knowledge experts when medicine meets marketing.
Reporters covering the story of influenza A H1N1 in Canada should tread carefully when sources start to offer nicknames other than swine flu. The World Health Organization website noted Apr 30 it is now using...
Journalism professor David Secko and researcher Wendy Smith are leading the Concordia Science Journalism Project, which aims to help journalists discriminate between good research and bad by collecting stories from scientists and the reporters who cover them.
Health and Medical Journalism
edited by MEREDITH LEVINE
This section looks at how the media covers health and medical issues and debates. It also provides tools for journalists to better evaluate health and medical research, practice and policy.
Meredith Levine is a lecturer at University of Western Ontario, after having worked as a producer at CBC National Radio Current Affairs for over a decade. Her research focuses primarily on journalism ethics, health care ethics, patient preferences and values, and communication and disability.
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