ArticlePLoS medicine2008
False hopes, unwarranted fears: the trouble with medical news stories.
Article in PLoS medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- News coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic: Missed opportunities to promote health sustaining behaviors.Infection, disease & health · 2020Article
- Use of exaggerated language in news stories to describe drugs for treatment of Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) · 2020Article
- Can we improve the quality of medical news merely by increasing journalists' health knowledge?Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2019Article
- The portrayal of bariatric surgery in the UK print media.Obesity surgery · 2012Review
- How does the media profile of cancer compare with prevalence?Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2011Article
- Communicating science: press releases at EHP.Environmental health perspectives · 2010Article
- Breaking the news or fueling the epidemic? Temporal association between news media report volume and opioid-related mortality.PloS one · 2009Article
- Media portrayals of suicide.PLoS medicine · 2009Article
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