Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.
Thanks to Crusader Rabbit for pointing me to this lovely bit of medical spam at News.com.au:
Energy drinks’ ’serious’ heart risk
JUST one energy drink can cause “serious heart conditions”, a world-first study has found.
The report, according to Adelaide Now, has [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.
Here’s a new category of spam – disaster spam. Seems a little self-defeating to me to try and sensationalise a sensational event, but that does not seem to stop the guys on Stuff:
NZ powerless to help Haiti, says McCully
New Zealand [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.
And now for a refreshing spot of global warming spam:
Sunspot theory for warming planet is shot down in flames
Leading scientists, including a Nobel Prize-winner, have rounded on studies used by climate sceptics to show that global warming is a natural [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.
There is always plenty of spam to go around in health reporting. Journalists just love to sensationalise anything to do with medicine, preferably putting it in the worst light possible:
Seeing red over high health costs
Cataract surgery for Christchurch woman Glennis [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.
It was inevitable that the sentinel event report , designed to help hospitals improve systems, would be seized upon by journalists to score some easy sensational headlines. The Dom Post supplies us with this fine headline:
Hospitals to blame in 92 deaths
Hospital [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.
Why is it that, every time  Tony Ryall says anything about health funding, the effect of the change is either minimised, if positive, or greatly exaggerated, if negative?
Health cuts loom as Govt refocuses spending

District health board chiefs are bracing themselves [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.
Well, half the headline is ok…
DHBs, union clash over plan to axe 20 doctors
Plans to cut 20 resident doctor positions at Auckland hospitals will increase the pressure on remaining staff and threatens standards of patient care, a unionist says.
But the [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.
Don’t you just love it when headlines say the exact opposite of the main body of the article?
Mobile phone cancer link charted
Studies on whether mobile phones can cause cancer, especially brain tumors, vary widely in quality and there may be [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.
Sometimes, I confess I wonder whether spam medical headlines just represent ignorance, rather than the deliberate sensationalisation of a medical article. But in this case, I think it is clear that the journalist understood the meaning but deliberately twisted it [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.
This is what happens when legitimate studies are reported sensationally:
Bad doctors most likely to be men, report shows
Women make safer doctors than men, Britain’s largest study of medical performance has found.
They are less likely to be investigated over concerns about [...]