text_1: Newly Identified Form of Vertigo Responds to Treatment
text_2: This HealthDay story reports on a study published in the journal of the American Academy of Neurology where researchers claim to have discovered a new form of vertigo, a condition causing dizziness. They found a small subgroup within a population of vertigo patients whose response differed from those of patients with known forms of the condition. The story is barely more than a rewrite of the news release sent out by the AAN. With no independent sources, it doesn’t critically explore the question of whether this is really a new diagnosis, or only a subgroup of vertigo patients who had a particular finding on a special examination. People suffering from vertigo can have symptoms ranging from miserable to completely debilitating. And since vertigo can have various causes, treatments can vary, as can their effectiveness. The story says that one in three persons with this new form of the condition responded to an unnamed medication. For readers to actually benefit from this story, they needed much more information, including the name of the meds that worked.