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Letter to the Editor
The Washington Post

Published in The Washington Post
Feb. 8, 2005

Here's to Better Health Reporting

By Jessie C. Gruman

"Where the Naproxen Story Went Wrong" [Feb. 1] illuminated the hazards of oversimplified reporting — and of oversimplified reading. In our "ownership society," consumers are increasingly on their own in the quest to make the right health decisions for themselves and family, and to do a better job they are going to need help from public agencies and from news media asking the age-old journalism questions: who, what, when, where, why and how? — and now, who paid?

Jessie Gruman
President
Center for the Advancement of Health
Washington