When Medical News Comes from Press Releases-A Case Study of Pancreatic Cancer and Processed Meat.

The media have a key role in communicating advances in medicine to the general public, yet the accuracy of medical journalism is an under-researched area. This project adapted an established monitoring instrument to analyse all identified news reports (n = 312) on a single medical research paper: a...

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Main Authors: Joseph W Taylor, Marie Long, Elizabeth Ashley, Alex Denning, Beatrice Gout, Kayleigh Hansen, Thomas Huws, Leifa Jennings, Sinead Quinn, Patrick Sarkies, Alex Wojtowicz, Philip M Newton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127848