Health News in the Media

A November 24, 2008 Kaiser Family Foundation report (http://www.kff.org/entmedia/7839.cfm) found that in the 18 month period from January 2007 to June 2008 health news was the 8th biggest subject in national news, comprising 3.6% of all coverage. Crime, natural disasters and foreign affairs all received more coverage than health news. Democratic Congressional leaders plan to work on several bills in early January 2009, including health care related bills addressing SCHIP and embryonic stem cell research (http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/nation/11/23/1123congressobama.html).