Health News Anemia

Have you noticed that there is a health news deficiency in television programming? In 24 hours of TV observance, mostly redundant repetition, health news rarely got repeated or even mentioned. In addition, health stories seemed to stem from some person's misfortune rather than their health challenge. As many times as the story is repeated, rarely, if ever, is there a clue about what you could do if it happened to you.

Within a 24 hour period health commercials comprised more health information than actual broadcasts.  If you wanted to know about the daily health news like the current blood shortage or the worldwide Ebola outbreak, you will hear about it from someone, or read about it on line before it becomes old news on TV, if at all.

Of course there are newsworthy things going on in health and medicine - everyday. Drug recalls, disease outbreaks, new disease research, and public health hazards infect our communities daily. Local news may mention it, and is more likely to carry health news you can actually use as well as local resources to help you out.

Medical information on TV is limited and stagnating. Sixty seconds on the news. Two minutes on the talk show after commercials on prescription medication. Outdated show on this channel, and outdated repeat on that channel in between the new show. Watch some on this channel then click and click to different channels to connect your medical news for today. Channel surfing can become quite cumbersome with a low yield within 24 hours. Excluding taped health shows the daily intermittent health news infusion averages less than one hour.

Health and medical coverage on TV is surely lacking in this consumer driven health conscious society. We can watch as much sports, cartoons, movies, news as we want, but we still have to piece together our medical news and supplement it with the written word, and spoken word of health care providers. Solution: health channels. The television is one of the most used sources by which folks get their news and information. It is certainly a way to get and give health information. The most used information source is one of the least used for health and medicine in general.  Dedicated health channels and more daily health news would make us even healthier and richer. Transfuse STAT!