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I recently was assessing a lengthy review of the evidence on environmental exposures and breast cancer risk, and as I…
The bread and butter of medical research reporting traditionally has been coverage of peer-reviewed studies. However, some new kids are…
At the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting last fall, I attended a talk by Kevin Powell, M.D., Ph.D., called…
One challenge when covering medical conferences is that, depending on your publication’s needs, you often must conduct many interviews on…
Most often, reporting on medical studies means recounting numbers, demographic details, findings and statistical probability values that are so abstract…
Journals require authors to disclose any possible financial conflicts of interest (COIs) because research has shown links between industry funding…
Writing about health and medical studies is part of the larger genre of writing about science. Perhaps the best science…
Nutrition studies can be as frustrating to cover as they can be fascinating. That’s because of the maddening coffee-chocolate-wine quandary:…
In early October, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Paratek Pharmaceuticals’ new antibiotic Nuzyra, which kills bacteria associated with…
Using appropriate terminology when reporting on medical studies is important not only for the sake of accuracy and clarity, but…