This document provides tips for covering medical research, including learning to use the PubMed database to conduct directed searches for relevant studies. It recommends journalists join the Association of Health Care Journalists for additional resources on reporting on health and medicine accurately. The document also advises keeping a biostatistician on hand to help interpret statistics from studies to avoid reporting incorrect information.

1. Covering Medical Research:
Tips and Tricks
Ivan Oransky, MD
VP, Global Editorial Director
MedPage Today
NABJ
Orlando, Florida
August 1, 2013

3. Learn to Love PubMed

4. Directed Searches

5. Directed Searches

6. Join the AHCJ
www.healthjournalism.org

7. AHCJ Resources

8. How Not To Get It Wrong

9. A Dirty Little Secret
Keep a biostatistician in your back pocket
Photo by Peyri Herrera, on Flickr

10. A Dirty Little Secret
Keep a biostatistician in your back pocket
Photo by Peyri Herrera, on Flickr