Editorials: Promoting healthy skepticism in the news: Helping journalists get it right

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 101, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 1596-1599

  Woloshin, Steven ^a,b   Schwartz, Lisa M ^a,b   Kramer, Barnett S ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^b VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; OLAPARIB; PHTHALAZINE DERIVATIVE; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE;

EDITORIAL; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SCREENING; SOLID TUMOR; TELEVISION; VALIDITY; BLOOD; DRUG ANTAGONISM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MASS MEDIUM; NEOPLASM; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; MASS MEDIA; NEOPLASMS; NEWSPAPERS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PHTHALAZINES; PIPERAZINES; POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASES; SAMPLE SIZE; TELEVISION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 71549143830     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djp409     Document Type: Editorial

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