I get excited when I see a newspaper – as my local Star Tribune-add a science page, which they did recently. And I don't get too upset that none of the entries on this page of science were produced locally. Better than nothing, I thought. No damage. Maybe it will improve science literacy and interest in science, a little on some readers.
Then Sunday Star Tribune yesterday splashes this health + wellbeing page on me. And 80% of the page is dedicated to a story lifted from the book of Hackensack, NJ, the registry. Nothing against Hackensack or the registry. But this story was about heart artery catheterization done through pulse – "a European doctors approach have used for years."
Interesting.
And now it is being done in New Jersey. And the story ends with a NJ NJ doc predicting: "I think, eventually, 90 percent of patients will be able to have it".
But I don't live in New Jersey. I live in Minnesota. And the Star Tribune is a part of Minnesota.
And THERE Is Not A Word HERE ABOUT WHETHER SOMEONE Is DOING THIS In MINNESOTA1
This is what we call shovelware. Nothing in the shovel to create the appearance of a health/medicine specialized page .... Heck, even call it a page of "wellness", because what's hot.
As a new sign that an entity orphaned this page little excuse of not-so-special was, was the variety section (!), hidden among the characteristics the GIRL POWER! .... making us laugh in MINNESOTA ... something called the junk drawer ... and a review of the film "The Dark Knight Rises".
Now, that's where I think it look for a health/well-being page, with a story about interventional cardiology!
