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Q&A with Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman: Ghostwriting sneaks past most journal editors

Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman is the principal investigator of PharmedOut, an educational campaign aimed at showing physicians how marketing influences their prescribing decisions. Originally funded by the Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education Grant, PharmedOut, among other things, offers continuing medical education to doctors, allowing them to earn credits without taking courses funded by drug or device companies.

Doctors Behaving Badly: Gynecologist has "excellent" adventure with pharma ghostwriter

 

In a fascinating piece in the New York Times, Natasha Singer detailed how Dr. Gloria Bachmann leapt at the chance to sign her name to an article she had not written.

Covering Cancer Disparities: Tips for Reporters from a Leading Researcher

ReportingonHealth's TalkBack blog recently highlighted media coverage of a new study showing a striking difference in survival rates between blacks and whites with a certain type of throat cancer.

Exorcise the ghosts that have been haunting research journals

The New York Times and the medical journal PloS Medicine won an incredible victory for patients and for health writers last week. They persuaded a judge in a lawsuit against drug makers to release 1,500 previously sealed documents that tell the story of how drug companies like Wyeth have been acting as ghost writers in medical journals.

Black and White: Genetic Differences in Tumors Mean Different Survival Rates

The New York Times' Roni Caryn Rabin on Monday reported on a landmark study that may help explain why whites seem to outlive blacks when they have been diagnosed with the same type of cancer.

Health Reform Too Boring for Broadcast? Not at KQED

Trudy Lieberman is the president of The Association of Health Care Journalists board of directors, and she is the director of the health and medicine reporting program at the Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York. Ms. Lieberman is also a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review, and a contributor to The Nation. Below is her blog post on how health care reporting is possible - and necessary!

Deep Impact: Tips for Journalists Covering California's Health Budget Cuts

As California lawmakers finally reach a budget agreement, it's time to start assessing how the proposed deep cuts in health care services may affect your community.

Q&A with Andrew Schneider Part 1: What to do when the big story finds you

Andrew Schneider is one of the country's most accomplished investigative journalists. His work has won not just one, but two Pulitzer Prizes, and countless other awards. I had the privilege of meeting him when both of us were finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting at Harvard. My team lost. So did his.

The nuclear option: Bogdanich drops a bomb on VA hospital

Walt Bogdanich, three-time Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter, has written a phenomenal story about cancer care at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Philadelphia and tapped into a rich source of material for medical writers: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Oprah sells mind-body snake oil to the masses

The June 8 edition of Newsweek has a must-read story about the world's most influential celebrity.

Weston Kosova and Pat Wingert meticulously detail how Oprah Winfrey uses her show, her magazine and her Web site as a platform for some completely loony health advice, including needle-and-thread facelifts, avoiding vaccines, daily hormone injections into the vagina to stop aging and thinking positively as an alternative to surgery.

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