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Volume 329:890 September 16, 1993 Number 12
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Medical Journals and the Popular Media

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To the Editor: Journalists who report on health and medicine need full and accurate information if they are to report accurately to the public. The statement on medical journals and the popular media approved by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors at its January 1993 meeting (April 29 issue)1 properly said, "Policies designed to limit prepublication publicity should not apply to accounts in the media of presentations at scientific meetings or to the abstracts from these meetings." But it went on to add, "Researchers who present their work at a scientific meeting should feel free to discuss their presentations . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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