Sources and coverage of medical news on front pages of US newspapers.

BACKGROUND: Medical news that appears on newspaper front pages is intended to reach a wide audience, but how this type of medical news is prepared and distributed has not been systematically researched. We thus quantified the level of visibility achieved by front-page medical stories in the United S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: William Y Y Lai, Trevor Lane, Alison Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2730576?pdf=render