Riffs

The Quote Diet. Chip Scanlan, Pointer Online, 8/24/03.

The Journalist/Physician: Can He Be Both? Bob Steele, Poynter Online, 4/4/03.

How to obtain the research behind the news stories NHS, more great links, 2003. 

Health, Hope and Hype: Why the media oversell medical 'breakthroughs.' Shannon Brownlee, Washington Post, 8/3/03.

Why Reporters and Editors Get Health Coverage Wrong: Health journalists need and want special training. Melinda Voss, Nieman Rreports, Spring 03.

The Web also wheezes. William F. Bria, American College of Physicians, 4/03.

Merely Lights and Wires? Gary Schwitzer, Minnesota Medicine, 4/03.

Frustrations on the Frontiers of the Health Beat. Andrew Holtz, Nieman Reports, 3/03.

The Uninsured Story is Seldom Fully Told. Susan Dentzer, Nieman Reports, 3/03.

Report the Praise and the Pain. Thomas Huang Poynter Online, 3/24/03.

High Potential Content Areas. Readership Institute, 2003.

Helping Journalists Get it Right: A Physicians guide to improving health care reporting Karen Stamm, BA, et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Magazines still find plenty of niches - Specialty titles keep cropping up. Peter Johnson, USA Today, 3/11/03.

Avoiding Numeric Novocain. Chip Scanlan, Poynter Online 3/5/03.

Medicine's Biggest Pills - Placebo Journal Puts Its Jaundiced Finger On Every Doctor's Worst Headache--Patients. Peter Carlson, Washington Post, 1/14/03.

Mixed Messages Call For Healthy Skepticism. Norman Soloman, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, 1/16/03.

Was this food fight fair? Liz Cox, Columbia Journalism Review 12/02. 

JAMA -- Interpreting the Medical Literature. book reviewed by Saty Satya-Murti, JAMA 12/02.

Mags feature breast cancer more than heart disease. Charnicia E. Huggins, Reuters Health, 10/25/02.

Hype in Health Reporting: "Checkbook science" buys distortion of medical news. Diana Zuckerman FAIR, 9/10/02.

Health News That's Unhealthy. Mervin Block, Television Newswriting Workshop, 8/6/02.

What is newsworthy? Longitudinal study of the reporting of medical research in two British newspapers. C. Bartlett , J. Sterne,  M. Egger, BMJ, 7/13/02.

The Wonder Drug That Wasn't. Hilary Macht Felgran and Ann Hettinger, Columbia Journalism Review, 5/02.

Fox and the Hounds. Scary evidence gets story pulled, Media Bistro, 05/28/02.

Ethics 101: A Course About the Pitfalls. Gina Kolata, New York Times, 10/21/03.

Sensationalism in the Media: When Scientists and Journalists May Be Complicit Collaborators. David Ransohoff, Richard Ransohoff, American College of Physicians, 7/01.

Meteorology & Medical Reporting Gary Schwitzer, MayoClinic.com 3/13/01.

Potent Prose - The best science reporters must be able to turn what is often dry, impenetrable data into compelling human stories. Douglas Starr, The Writer, 8/01.

Beware a conflict of interest. David Nicholson, The Scientist, 8/23/01.

Is Medical Reporting in Crisis? Michael O'Riordan, Thunderbird UBC Journalism Review.

Health Resources on the Internet--Part I. Paul Grabowicz. Health Resources on the Internet--Part II. Paul Grabowicz, Online Journalism Review.

Hazards of covering clinical trials. Melinda Voss, Columbia Journalism Review, 10/01.

Covering medical technology. Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review, 5/01.
7 Words You Shouldn't Use in Medical News. By Gary Schwitzer, MayoClinic.com 2/1/00.

The problem with medical advice columns.  
Ann McPherson, BMJ.
Freelance Writing. Lynne Low, BMJ.

Medicine and the Media. Johnson T. Shattuck, New England Journal of Medicine.

How to Understand and Interpret Food and Health-Related Scientific Studies. International Food Information Council.

Missed Story Syndrome. Kate McKenna, American Journalism Review.

Medical Scientists and Health News Reporting: A Case of Miscommunication. Miriam Shuchman and Michael S. Wilkes, Annals of Internal Medicine.

The Power of the Pen: Medical Journalism and Public Awareness. Scott Eggener, JAMA

Psychiatrists, Journalists Hold Their First Meeting of the Minds. Andrew A. Skolnick, JAMA

Reporting Tool: Reporting on Risk Assessment. Kamrin, Katz, Walter, Foundation for American Communications and National Sea Grant College Program.

Deleting the 'Free' from Freelancing. Jane E. Stevens, NASW.

Getting the Story Straight on Nutrition. Rebecca Voelker, JAMA.

Epidemiology for Journalists. Daniel Wartenberg, Foundation for American Communications.

A Medical Breakthrough. Jerome Aumente, American Journalism Review.

News and Numbers. Victor Cohn, FACSNET.

The media: help or hindrance to medicine?  
L. Beecham, BMJ.

The Magical Medical Media Tour. Gary Schwitzer, JAMA.

How to Research the Medical Literature. Steve Dunn.

Grace Notes

Grace Notes. The value of writing one charming note to a writer, editor, agent... Carolyn See, Media Bistro, 7/02.

Sniffs

Former Medical Journal Editor Speaks Out About Conflicts Of Interest. Maryann Napoli, Center for Medical Consumers, 6/05.

New law aims to distance the FDA from the drug industry. Jeanne Lenzer, BMJ 5/14/05.

New rules drive off NIH researchers. Tanne BMJ, 4/16/05.

Scientists criticize new NIH rules to cut employees' ties to industry. Tanne BMJ, 3/12/05.

NIH Announces Sweeping Ethics Reform. NIH, 2/05.

Royalty payments to staff researchers cause new NIH troubles. 1/22/05.

Editor claims drug companies have a "parasitic" relationship with journals. Lynn Eaton, BMJ, 1/1/05.

Ten Troublesome Trends in TV Health News. Gary Schwitzer, BMJ, 1/24//05.

Failing the Public Health - Rofecoxib, Merck, and the FDA. Eric J. Topol, MD, N Engl J Med, 10/21/04.

Journals force drug companies to disclose results.
Margaux Kanis, The Chronicle, 9/13/04.

Expected Call for Advance Registration of Drug Tests. Barry Meier, New York Times, 9/8/04.

Bitter Medicine, Two books on the (big) business of the pharmaceutical industry. Reviewed By Shannon Brownlee, Mother Jones, 10/04.

The Truth About Drug Companies Peter Meredith interviews Marcia Angell. Mother Jones, 9/04.

Scientific Integrity, Fidelity and Conflicts of Interest. Teddy D. Warner, Laura Weiss Roberts, WebMD, 8/23/04. 

NIH ethics report draws critics. Ted Agres, The Scientist, 8/12/04.

Scandals have eroded US public's confidence in drug industry. Jeanne Lenzer, BMJ, 7/31/04.

The Truth About the Drug Companies. Marcia Angell New York Review of Books, 7/15/04.

Potential Conflicts of Interest at the NIH, Talk of the Nation audio. NPR, 7/9/04.

When Medicine And Money Don't Mix Business Week, 6/28/04.

NIH scientists' in drug firm deal crackdown.  DrugResearcher.com, 6/23/04.

NIH to Restrict Work With Drug Industry. Miami Herald, 6/22/04.

Magazines ask too many questions on their covers, says critic. CBS MarketWatch, 6/18/04.

Empirical evidence for selective reporting of outcomes in randomized trials: comparison of protocols to published articles. JAMA, 5/26/04.

Whistleblower removed from job for talking to the press. Jeanne Lenzer, BMJ, 5/15/04.

Doctors Without Borders, Why you can't trust medical journals anymore. Shannon Brownlee, Washington Monthly, 4/04.

Drug company targets US state health officials. Ray Moynihan, BMJ 2/7/04.

The Dawn of McScience. The New York Review of Books, 3/11/04.

Synthetic Science. Lila Rajiva, AlterNet, 2/24/04.

Dirty tricks drug firms use to get publicity. Tom Curtis and Murdo Macleod, The Scotsman, 2/29/04.

Blood Money? The Los Angeles Times' flawed masterpiece about corruption at NIH. Jack Shafer, Slate, 12/03.

Revealed: how drug firms 'hoodwink' medical journals. Antony Barnett, The Guardian, 12/7/03.

Conflict over competing interests. Susan Mayor, The Scientist, 8/14/03.

Fine line for reporting results. Stephen Pincock, The Scientist, 8/14/03.

Science in conflict. Eugene Russo, The Scientist, 7/15/03.

How the media left the evidence out in the cold Gary Schwitzer, BMJ  6/21/03.

Unhealthy spin Bob Burton, Andy Rowel, BMJ, 5/31/03.

Medical journals and pharmaceutical companies: uneasy bedfellows. Richard Smith, BMJ, 5/31/03.

How to dance with porcupines: rules and guidelines on doctors' relations with drug companies. Elizabeth Wager, BMJ, 5/31/03.

Who pays for the pizza? Redefining the relationships between doctors and drug companies. 1: Entanglement. Ray Moynihan, BMJ, 5/31/03.

No more free lunches. K. Abbasi, R. Smith, BMJ, 5/29/03.

Academics' Ties to Business Muddy Disclosure Decisions Neil Munro, The Scientist, 4/01/03.

Peer review under scrutiny Pat Hagan, The Scientist 2/03.

Industry ties seen as distorting medical studies. Robert Lee Hotz. Los Angeles Times, 1/22/03.

Spin Doctors Prescribe the Wrong Medicine. Jeanne Lenzer, BMJ, 1/03.

Relaxing The Rules Tufts E-news 6/19/02.New England Journal Relaxes Conflict Rules. Washington Post, 6/13/02.
 
Scandal of scientists who take money for papers ghostwritten by drug companies. Sarah Boseley, The Guardian, 2/7/02.

Study Says Clinical Guides Often Hide Ties of Doctors.  Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 2/6/02.

Most Doctors Who Set Guidelines Have Industry Ties. Jacqueline Stenson, Reuters, 2/5/02.

World Health Organization accuses drugs groups of interference. Frances Silliams, Financial Times, 12/18/01.

Selling Drugs - with a little help from a journalist. Rob Burton, BMJ, 12/24/01.