UW-CTRI staff lassoed coverage in several news outposts in recent weeks. So tie up your horse while we rustle up this media round-up:
- New York Times and AMA News: UW Cardiologist Dr. Jim Stein, who is a co-PI of the UW-CTRI research study Vape Check, and UW-CTRI Director Dr. Hasmeena Kathuria shared their expertise with the New York Times about the health effects of vaping. The Times gets approximately 143 million visits per month, according to SimilarWeb data. Read that for free here. AMA Morning Rounds also led with that story.
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: UW-CTRI Researcher and Pediatrician Dr. Brian Williams spoke with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the health effects of vaping. Read the article here. They also wrote about the Options 2 study, quoting UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Megan Piper and UW-CTRI Researcher Tom Piasecki. The study seeks to learn if nicotine pouches can help smokers go longer before their next cigarette. View that coverage here. The site gets an estimated 3.4 million unique visitors a month and an estimated 300,000 daily unique visitors in print plus online.
- Wisconsin State Journal: Kathuria and UW-CTRI Founding Director Dr. Michael Fiore wrote a letter to the editor of the Wisconsin State Journal to help educate people on the health benefits of clean indoor air in restaurants, bars and public places. Read it here. The site gets an estimated 562,977 unique visitors each month.
- MedPage Today and AMA Morning Rounds: MedPage Today featured a paper by two UW-CTRI researchers, Dr. Brian Williams and Dr. Jesse Kaye, published in JAMA Pediatrics. MedPage Today garners approximately 900,000 unique visits a month. To read that, click here. This research was also featured in AMA Morning Rounds.
- NBC 15, Fox 11 and CBS 7: Piper spoke with the Madison TV affiliate about the Options 2 study, which examines whether nicotine pouches can help people go longer before their next cigarette. The segment ran on the evening news, website and morning news. To view the NBC 15 video, click here. Fox 11 in Green Bay and CBS 7 in Wausau also picked up the story. NBC 15 attracts approximately 289,000 unique daily viewers. CBS 7 garners about 10,485 daily unique viewers.
- Fox 6: Kathuria also spoke with the Fox TV affiliate in Milwaukee about the health effects of vaping. The station and website garner an estimated 188,428 unique viewers per day. To view the Fox 6 video, click here. It was also picked up by Fox 11 in Green Bay. To view that segment, click here.
- Menominee Nation News: UW-CTRI Regional Outreach Specialist Sarah Thompson was featured in this newspaper with a picture of her speaking to tribal leaders, members and healthcare professionals. She discussed various risks from smoking and vaping as well as resources to quit. This publication reaches approximately 1710 readers per week, according to the Wisconsin Newspaper Association.