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Book on cognitive biases and logical fallacies particularly relevant during pandemic
I’m pretty sure Jonathan Howard, M.D., is not psychic — but I’m not 100% sure. After all, almost nothing in…
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Ferrets and monkeys and mice, oh my! What’s the best coronavirus animal model?
Mice and rats are the most common lab mammals for scientific research, But depending on the question being asked, and…
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Study focuses on the popularity of pandemic themes in Hollywood cinema
There’s no shortage of medical studies examining every possible aspect of the coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic that one could imagine,…
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Getting the most from webinars on COVID-19 and the coronavirus
Between social distancing guidelines and the fact that a global pandemic truly does impact the entire world, webinars and online…
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Does the study you are covering look at quality of life?
In reviewing an email of recently published articles at JAMA Surgery, I was pleased to see two pieces in particular.…
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Study to investigate adolescent mental health during the pandemic
Much advice has appeared in the media over the past two months about how to manage anxiety, depression and other…
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How COVID-19 may affect death rates not from the coronavirus
As many hospitals have struggled with a deluge of COVID-19 patients, which at times has prompted patients with other severe…
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How a silly Facebook riddle can help you think more critically about medical studies
At a certain point, you think you’ve seen all of those maddening, intentionally misleading Facebook math riddles. The first one…
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RSS service streamlines access to COVID-19 preprints
It can be hard enough to keep up with the peer-reviewed research flooding out of journals related to COVID-19 and…
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Promise and pitfalls of preprints explored in AHCJ webcast
More than 50 health journalists and others participated in the April 30 AHCJ webcast on research preprints, but if you…