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How numbers can be used to buttress falsehoods
On The New York Times‘ Well blog, Tara Parker-Pope interviewed NYU journalism professor Charles Seife, author of Proofiness: The Dark…
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11 chosen as 2010 AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows
The Association of Health Care Journalists has announced the selection of the third class of AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows. The…
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Federal stimulus money invigorates medical research
Are you looking for a surprising source of economic power to report about in your community? How about a story…
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Video, presentations from comparative effectiveness conference available online
Earlier this month, ECRI’s 17th annual conference tackled the thorniest detail of comparative effectiveness research, namely that it’s rarely a…
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In herbal remedies, labels don’t match contents
With the help of researchers who put together herbal DNA barcodes, PBS NewsHour’s Paul Solman found out just how often…
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Alzheimer’s and caregivers’ difficult decisions
Writing for the AARP Bulletin, Chris Woolston drills straight to the core of the pain felt by folks caring for…
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13 years of warnings, FDA inaction behind seizure
U.S. marshals seized a number of drug products from a small New Jersey pharmaceutical manufacturer called Tri-Med laboratories earlier this…
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Days numbered for UK’s arbiter of comparative effectiveness
While comparative effectiveness research in the United States is booming thanks to the stimulus, a United Kingdom bastion of the…
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Cuts in Irish health care may foretell changes in U.S. system
Ireland’s public health system is facing unprecedented cuts as the country grapples with the aftermath of a banking crisis and…
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Scary secrets about ghostwriting in journals
Just in time for Halloween, an anonymous medical ghostwriter spoke to Phil Davis over at the Scholarly Kitchen about the…
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