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Blog tracks Canadian health policy reports
Canadian journalist Carl Meyer has turned reportscanada.ca into a one-stop clearinghouse of policy reports from the Canadian government and non-governmental…
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Duo writes about how health statistics can mislead
Writing in mathematics-focused Plus Magazine, Mike Pearson (bio) and David Spiegelhalter (bio|wikipedia) examine not only the variety of methods used…
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Journal launches site for journalists covering studies
In an editorial in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, “Promoting Healthy Skepticism in the News: Helping Journalists Get…
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ECRI reviews prostate cancer research
The ECRI Institute’s new review of recent research on the utility of off-label prescription of Finasteride in the prevention of…
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Tech company aggregates, digitizes H1N1 info
Ebrary, a Silicon Valley outfit that specializes in digitizing and aggregating documents, then making them searchable, has put together a…
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AAMC’s annual workforce report packed with data
The American Association of Medical Colleges has released its annual workforce report for 2009, and it’s full of enough state-by-state…
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Resources for journalists covering flu
AHCJ member Stefanie Friedhoff has led a Nieman Foundation effort to bring together as much pandemic flu material as possible…
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Social media takes over ScienceWriters 2009
Writing for the Columbia Journalism Review, Robin Lloyd and Cristine Russell tell an increasingly familiar story: Twitter and friends take…
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Feds take Columbia to task over decade-old study
The run of intriguing health journalism from the Huffington Post Investigative Fund continues this week, as Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon…
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Open access to research recognized this week
It’s Open Access week! Time to honor the principle that scientific research should be made available for free online immediately…