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Covering medical studies
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Despite bacon headlines, reporters got to the meat of the story
“When you pry the bacon from my cold, dead, cancerous hands …” Some days it seems the press loves nothing…
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Time takes a critical look at breast cancer treatment
Siobhan O’Connor recently explored in a Time magazine piece an issue that has been gaining traction in both the medical…
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How we talk about cancer: Insights on language for journalists
The public radio show “On the Media” recently devoted its entire hour to an insightful and poignant episode on cancer…
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Reporting on hype, hope around treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
There seems to be no end of news reports about promising therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. With the…
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Controversy over blood pressure trial demonstrates danger of relying on press releases
When the headline on a news release begins with “landmark” and includes the words “lifesaving,” “greatly,” and “milestone,” a good…
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Workshop will help reporters translate medical research to audiences accurately
Even if you only cover health care occasionally, you run across myriad medical studies and health claims. The results and…
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Be prepared to cover medical research claims during election season
As the race toward the 2016 election gradually takes over more and more media coverage, Americans’ attention will be pulled…
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Tips on using Excel to get a handle on large data files
In the age of big data and large datasets available through the CDC, the NIH, and other entities, it helps…
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Communicating drug risks in pharma marketing: A new FDA challenge
Many American consumers may not realize this, but only New Zealand and the United States are the only countries with strong pharmaceutical regulations…
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A guide to understanding why science is messy, hard and wonderful
An utterly fantastic long read by Christie Aschwanden at FiveThirtyEight.com, cuts to the chase very early: “Science is hard –…