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Not so long ago, medical research reports were published in medical journals, to be read and evaluated primarily by physicians. If patients ever learned anything about research studies, it was from their physicians. But patterns of communication have changed. Today, the news media and the Internet are major sources of health information for the public. This shift in the flow of information has definite benefits, but it brings with it some tricky tensions for patients, physicians, researchers, and even the editors of medical journals.

Physicians may feel that they are working at cross-purposes with the health-news media, especially when news . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Finlayson N. D.C., Nixon S. J., McAlister G. W., McGettigan P., Henry D., Campion E. W.
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