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Covering medical studies
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Conflict-of-interest concerns run both ways
Last month, we wrote about the back-and-forth between the New England Journal of Medicine and BMJ regarding conflict of interest…
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Scientific journals squabble over conflict-of-interest policies
A game of inside baseball is being played between two of the most venerated medical journals, and journalists may want…
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Award-winning reporter explains how she investigated concerns over medical tests
The first thing most patients undergo when they have a complaint with an unknown source is a medical test. It…
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What can reporters learn from the chocolate diet study hoax?
You’ve been fooled. You thought eating chocolate while dieting could help you shed the pounds faster because a study supposedly…
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Journal’s retraction highlights value of keeping ‘a biostatistician in your back pocket’
A now-retracted study in the journal Science once again reveals how important it is that journalists find appropriate expert sources…
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Critically assessing nutritional arguments based on evidence: One journalist’s case study
Few areas of medical research are as challenging to study as nutrition. Randomized controlled nutrition trials are very difficult to…
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What that recent emergency department survey didn’t tell us
Earlier this month many of us received a news release from the American College of Emergency Physicians about a survey that…
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E-cigarette panel lit up a debate at #AHCJ15
The Health Journalism 2015 panel on e-cigarette use, or vaping, was anything but dull. Des Moines Register health reporter Tony…
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6 tips to find success writing for trade publications #ahcj15
Top editors offered great advice for journalists interested in freelancing for health trade publications during a panel at Health Journalism…
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Why reporters should check the data in a ‘brief’
A recent data brief from the National Center for Health Statistics reported a 23 percent increase in the age-adjusted hypertension-related…
