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Sensitivity in writing about research related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals means more than paying attention to language…
Ah, the precision of numbers! For editors and journalists alike, the right number can slam a story into high gear,…
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You know those ads on late-night radio or in the back of some magazines for testosterone replacement therapy? Hate to…
Journalists are in love with reporting new findings about a disease and a particular risk factor, but they are not…
With thousands of medical studies published every day, it’s impossible to cover even 1 percent of them. When you can…
Just one in every six new stories about medical research contained independent comments from someone besides the study authors —…
When it comes to social determinants and health, gender is one of the uncontrollable risk factors that can impact health.…
Winners of the 2016 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards included science journalist Christie Aschwanden of FiveThirtyEight, who received the Silver…
In a previous blog post about EurekAlert!, I described some advantages to using the service less often than many reporters…