The unbearable lightness of health science reporting: A week examining italian print media

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Iaboli, Luca ^a   Caselli, Luana ^b   Filice, Angelina ^a   Russi, Gianpaolo ^a   Belletti, Eleonora ^c  

^a S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c S ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMAN; ITALY; MASS MEDIUM; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; STANDARD;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMANS; ITALY; JOURNALISM; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; MASS MEDIA; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; SCIENCE;

EID: 78049417292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009829     Document Type: Article

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