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Be cautious, skeptical with comprehensive reviews of evidence
I recently was assessing a lengthy review of the evidence on environmental exposures and breast cancer risk, and as I…
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Get ready to cover the coming tide of clinical research preprints
The bread and butter of medical research reporting traditionally has been coverage of peer-reviewed studies. However, some new kids are…
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What was that number again …? The solution to re-using stats in your writing
Like many reporters, I have developed several niches in my reporting within medical research. I most often write about pediatrics,…
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Journalists can learn from these ‘9.5 Theses for a Reformation of Evidence-Based Medicine’
At the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting last fall, I attended a talk by Kevin Powell, M.D., Ph.D., called…
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Plan ahead to get answers at a medical conference
One challenge when covering medical conferences is that, depending on your publication’s needs, you often must conduct many interviews on…
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Don’t neglect the human stories — and human pain — behind clinical trials
Most often, reporting on medical studies means recounting numbers, demographic details, findings and statistical probability values that are so abstract…
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Helpful info for journalists available about Society of Thoracic Surgeons database
CNN has found itself caught up in a complicated libel case after an investigative story it ran in 2015 about the…
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CNN in the hot seat: Using numbers without context has consequences
How many times have you wanted to make a comparison between two numbers — a local rate and national rate,…
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Conflicts of interest can be harder to detect when reporting on psychosocial research
Journals require authors to disclose any possible financial conflicts of interest (COIs) because research has shown links between industry funding…
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Dive into a treasure trove of articles at The Open Notebook
Writing about health and medical studies is part of the larger genre of writing about science. Perhaps the best science…