A study of medical news reporting in Australian media has reached the following conclusions:

• In general, news outlets don’t do a great job of reporting medical research.
• “Broadsheet” newspapers (vs. tabloids; or what we in America call “newspapers, you know, but not the crappy kind”) do relatively better than other media formats, with 58% of stories being considered satisfactory.
• Online news sites lag behind print media but are catching up.
• TV news does the worst job.