Helpful Links

The Disability Language Style Guide is an extremely helpful reference for writing about any kind of disability. This paper in…

While age and race/ethnicity are nearly always reported in the baseline characteristics of Table 1 in a medical study, socioeconomic…

To better understand disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), see this 2013 paper on one approach to it and this deep dive…

International Classification of Diseases: The CDC has excellent pages that describe and explain the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical…

Plenty of sites provide overviews of the phases of clinical trials, but this one at the American Cancer Society is…

Toolkit: Right Care, Right Patient, Right Time: Comparative Effectiveness Research in the U.S.: In 2019, the Alliance for Health Policy coordinated…

The Principles of Disease Elimination and Eradication from the CDC. The principles of disease elimination and eradication by Walter R.…

This ToxTutor link from the NIH describes routes of exposure in greater detail, particularly as it relates to types of…

Ten Common Questions (and Their Answers) About Off-label Drug Use covers some of the most common questions, concerns and misunderstandings…

This slideshare, “Basic concepts and principles of epidemiology” by Dr. Dharmendra Gahwai, is a lengthy but thorough and fairly accessible…

Benjamin Freedman, Ph.D., wrote the first major paper on clinical equipoise in medical research in 1987 in the New England Journal of…

To better understand all the ways the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization mechanism works and what is and is not allowed…

Looking for how much a particular procedure, test or service should cost? The Healthcare Bluebook offers consumers an opportunity to…

Tips for interviewing people with disabilities: Covering medical studies often means interviewing people who live with conditions discussed in a study.…

Though highly technical and not for the layperson, this journal article, Hazard Ratio in Clinical Trials, offers a deep dive…

The webpage for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) provides information on upcoming meetings, specific vaccine working groups, a…

“How to Interpret Figures in Reports of Clinical Trials” Looking at a graph you don’t understand? This article from the BMJ explains…

Tracking deaths in police custody: For an excellent article on the problems with tracking police-caused deaths each year, this Five Thirty…

Although written specifically for early career researchers, the Sense About Science guide “Peer review: the nuts and bolts” (pdf here)…

This entry on priming at VeryWell gives a nice overview of the phenomenon as well as details on different types…

This short blog post on risk ratios is a good refresher if you’re uncertain how to translate a relative risk…

Screening and diagnostic tests, from Medscape: If you want to dig more into the differences between screening and diagnostic tests, this…

Poynter’s “11 resources for responsibly reporting on rape” includes links to tip sheets from the DART Center as well as…

You can use this online ClinCalc sample size calculator to determine what sample size is needed in a study to…

Detection bias is another word for surveillance bias, explained well here. This article, “Selection Bias and Information Bias in Clinical…

This incredible resource, “It’s the Effect Size, Stupid” from University of Durham (UK) professor Robert Coe, is an excellent overview…

World Health Organization: Understanding the organization, budget, funding and activities of the World Health Organization can put its role in terms…