Does it matter who writes medical news stories?

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Cancer in the news: Bias and quality in media reporting of cancer research.PloS one · 2020
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2. Can we improve the quality of medical news merely by increasing journalists' health knowledge?Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2019
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3. Promoting the Quality of Health Research-based News: Introduction of a Tool.International journal of preventive medicine · 2017
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4. Health Reporting in Print Media in Lebanon: Evidence, Quality and Role in Informing Policymaking.PloS one · 2015
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5. When Medical News Comes from Press Releases-A Case Study of Pancreatic Cancer and Processed Meat.PloS one · 2015
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6. Barriers of health news producers' empowerment: a qualitative study in iran.Health promotion perspectives · 2014
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7. Medicines and the media: news reports of medicines recommended for government reimbursement in Australia.BMC public health · 2013
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8. Men's Health-Related Magazines: A Retrospective Study of What They Recommend and the Evidence Addressing Their Recommendations.American journal of men's health
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9. How Twitter Is Studied in the Medical Professions: A Classification of Twitter Papers Indexed in PubMed.Medicine 2.0
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

5 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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