Misleading Media Coverage Of Medicine

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 09:35 in Health & Medicine

Media coverage of clinical trials does not contain the elements readers require to make informed decisions. A comparison of the coverage received by pharmaceutical and herbal remedy trials, reported in the journal BMC Medicine, has revealed that it is rarely possible for the lay public to assess the credibility of the described research.

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