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4 tips for reporting on press releasesabout new study results for drugs
Many reporters on the health beat face tight deadlines to publish stories based on press releases from the pharmaceutical industry…
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CNN in the hot seat: Using numbers without context has consequences
How many times have you wanted to make a comparison between two numbers — a local rate and national rate,…
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Study: Newspaper coverage rarely reflects medical evidence over time
Journalists are in love with reporting new findings about a disease and a particular risk factor, but they are not…
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For context, add global dimension to your reporting
Veteran health care journalist Trudy Lieberman says that she’s long observed that U.S. health reporters are reluctant to reach out…
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Using editorials, letters to help make sense of contradictory data
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a bombshell alcohol recommendation to women on Feb. 2 that led to…
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Journalists must succeed where politicians fail in risk communication
With no new cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in South Korea since July 2, the outbreak appears to…
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Context, context, context: How journalists can avoid confusing readers with the latest research findings
A recent editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association explored the responsibility that journals have to public health…
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Fraud, marketing just part of problems with hospice system
A Huffington Post exposé in June, “Hospice, Inc.,” rekindled some thoughts I’ve long had about the split personality of the…