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Covering medical studies
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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…
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Tip sheet can aid your reporting on COVID-19 serology/antibody testing
For the first six weeks of the pandemic, problems with PCR testing for the COVID-19 viral infection dominated headlines. Now…
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Reporters suddenly thrown into health beat need veterans’ support
In an op-ed for the Columbia Journalism Review, Ivan Oransky, M.D., draws on an apt metaphor for reporters from other…
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New data resource offers the lowdown in cancer terms, acronyms and concepts
When I first began writing in health and science journalism, my biggest “micro-beat” was vaccines (and still is). I had…
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Fauci’s announcement of remdesivir trial findings leaves out crucial detail
Most of the time, the most important aspect of reporting on medical research is ensuring that the coverage is accurate,…
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AHCJ webcast to highlight best practices for covering preprints during the pandemic
Given the relative youth of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s virtually impossible to report on the coronavirus-caused disease and not come…
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Beware the preprint in covering coronavirus research
If it wasn’t difficult enough to keep up with the flood of scientific papers about COVID-19 and the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus…
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Use these COVID-19 clinical trial trackers to keep up with research
It can be exhausting to keep up with who is testing what in the race to develop a vaccine for…