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Health journalism
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Conflicts of interest + off-label use = Blockbuster
Medtronic is back at the FDA, asking for approval of another spine fusion product. Not coincidentally, the Journal Sentinel‘s John…
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Hospitalist: What health journalists should know
R. W. Donnell, an Arkansas hospitalist with a long-running blog and a few burrs in his saddle, has outlined what…
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Gays excluded from clinical trials
Thanks to an awards announcement from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, we just noticed Jen Colletta’s story in…
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Dissecting Gawande’s narrative structure
In a recent post, Not Exactly Rocket Science’s Ed Yong tried to break down Atul Gawande’s work and figure out…
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NAMC folds, qualified members invited to AHCJ
The National Association of Medical Communicators, an organization for medical broadcasters, writers, organizational spokespersons and health professionals who communicate with…
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Australia lagging in conflict-of-interest disclosures
When a country is holding up the United States as a model of progress on medical conflict of interest issues,…
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AHCJ pushes for access to publicly funded research
The strong public interest in “direct, free and full text access to research articles” prompted the Association of Health Care…
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Initiative to help reporters cover European health
AHCJ has launched an effort to help reporters understand and cover health issues in Europe. This new resource includes a…
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As school starts, so do youth sports injuries
The University of Michigan’s new Michigan NeuroSport Concussion Program seems to be cropping up everywhere, and as far as I…
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Pfizer-funded workshop raises questions of ethics
Christopher Weaver, in a piece from Kaiser Health News and NPR, writes about a Pfizer-funded seminar for journalists. To attend…