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Lessons from a soda study that lost its fizz

Last October, Brigham and Women’s Hospital took the unusual step of recalling a press release about a research study. Just hours before the study’s embargo lifted, Brigham’s press officers asked the...

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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 men who helped out with chores traditionally deemed the province of women, i.e. laundry, dishes, and...

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Big data is coming to a study near you

Photo by bionicteaching via Flickr As social networks and search engines catalog our every click and keystroke, they generate billions or even trillions of data points about how and why we do the...

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The downside of using big data in medical research

A scientific scuffle played out in the pages of the Lancet recently. At issue was whether a team of scientists led by Dr. Damien Cruse at the University of Western Ontario had successfully used EEG, a...

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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 heavily stage-managed publication of the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy, or...

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Was a study of chelation fatally flawed or just countercultural?

This is the second of two posts about a study of whether chelation therapy might benefit some patients who have suffered a heart attack. In the first post, I gave health reporters high marks for their...

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Ideas worth stealing from Health Journalism 2013 #ahcj13

Health Journalism 2013, Boston edition, is officially a wrap. I traveled home with tons of useful tricks and story ideas, and because it’s my job to help you do yours… you’re going to get to steal some...

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Does this state make my butt look big?

A study published this month in the journal Obesity reports that the largest percentage of obese people in the United States live in the Great Plains, not in the South, as surveys have long indicated....

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Steak and eggs: Putting science, health news into context

Photo by avlxyz via Flickr Is it just me, or do medical journals seem to have a knack for publishing conflicting findings on the same topic within the very same week? That’s what happened earlier this...

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Reporters fall prey to back pain study’s shady PR push

Photo by planetc1 If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed several 140-character conniptions I had last week over coverage of a Danish study that used antibiotics to treat low back pain. I...

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When disease charities partner with drug companies, where does that leave...

A few weeks ago, I reached out to a disease charity for comment on a story I was working on. Disease charities are nonprofits like the American Heart Association, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, etc.,...

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Catching more cancer with vinegar than with money

Image by Sweet One via flickr. It can be tough to find a medical study that is both important and compelling. But that was the opportunity presented to health reporters this week in the shape of a big...

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Ghost protocols: Scientists propose a way to plug major holes in the medical...

Reporters who cover medical studies often take great care not to be fooled by the spin put on research by drug companies, universities and even government agencies. But sometimes the spin is the study...

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Independent reviews find less benefit, more harm than first reported for bone...

Efforts to correct biased and dangerous medical studies are making more headlines. Shortly after I posted about a new idea to correct missing and misreported research, I got an email from AHCJ member...

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Health reporters can cover safety claims in abortion fight

The dramatic filibuster of Texas Senate Bill 5 has refocused the nation’s attention on abortion. State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, and her staunchly planted pink sneakers – along with help from a...

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Balancing a celebrity endorsement with evidence

Image by Gage Skidmore via flickr. “The ability to talk to a lot of people is freakish,” said Chris Rock in a conversation with Jerry Seinfeld for his new online show “Comedians in Cars Getting...

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Reporting – and not reporting – on mice and men and scientific bias

Image by Andrew via flickr. In the medical world, mice seem to be making out pretty well. So far, researchers have reportedly cured mice of type 1 diabetes, prostate cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and...

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Drug company takes a stand in fight for clinical trial transparency

Image by Esthr via flickr. Efforts to increase the transparency and accessibility of clinical trial data kicked into a higher gear last week. Some of the major stakeholders in these efforts emerged...

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Finding good reads on medical research

If guys can have bromance, surely writers are allowed a little prosemance. Here, then, is a brief list of some of my favorite medical research bloggers: Hilda Bastian is the editor and curator of...

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Sex & money: When correlation isn’t causation, studies can still inform

Image by Susan Sermoneta via flickr. Two recent studies in the news have been clear examples of the correlation vs. causation question that’s part and parcel of covering observational research studies....

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