Meanwhile, today let's check in with the other great American newspaper health section in the New York Times. It's part of the Science Tuesday section, and usually buried behind long, elaborately illustrated stories about evolution or ferrets. (Note: you need an online NY Times subscription to access these stories -- sorry). The Times' health coverage is noteworthy because it is one of the few newspapers that pays enough to employ the writing skills of actual MDs -- which for health coverage is actually a good thing. And then, of course, there's the grande dame of health writing, the witty and erudite Jane E. Brody, who writes an eminently readable first-person column (called "Personal Health," natch). She writes about Lyme disease this week, which admittedly is a much bigger deal in the Northeast than in my SoCal homeland. But that's OK. So, why am I spotlightinging back-to-back the health reportage of the Timeses of LA and NY? Cuz this kinda stuff is getting gutted from our print media. It'll probably get stripped from the LA Times pretty soon. Maybe it'll survive in NY. We hope so.
(Illustration by Jez Burrows for the New York Times)
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