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Studies
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Health reporters deserve high marks for chelation coverage
In case you missed it, health reporters who cover medical studies had a shining moment recently. It centered around the…
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Big data is coming to a study near you
As social networks and search engines catalog our every click and keystroke, they generate billions or even trillions of data…
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All in the family: When medical experts disagree #ahcj13
Oncologist Jerome Groopman and endocrinologist Pamela Hartzband both attended Ivy League medical schools. He went to Columbia. She went to…
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Housework-hurts-sex study causes a dust up
You may have seen — and let’s face it — given a giant eye roll to a recent studythat claimed…
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Aspirin study causes headaches for journalists
Along with a story on aspirin and macular degeneration, my editors got a panicked note from me recently: “I struggled…
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Journalists beware: Surrogate endpoints strike again
Remember what happens when you assume? Trials that use surrogate endpoints to test treatments are making assumptions that those drugs…
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Goodman to guide journalists on covering medical studies
AHCJ is pleased to introduce independent journalist Brenda Goodman as the association’s topic leader on covering medical studies. Goodman, a…
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JAMA editor predicts embargoes will be up for discussion
This is a guest post by AHCJ board member and AP medical writer Carla K. Johnson, who leads AHCJ’s Chicago…
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Calorie restriction stories highlight best practices when writing about research
Down crashed one of the great hopes of anti-aging medicine recently with the news that calorie restriction did not lift…
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Alzheimer’s drug puts journalists’ judgment to test
It was the kind of news that had to be handled delicately, with a deft touch and a sense of…