A
Few Good Web Sites
PubMed
MedlinePlus
CRISP
(Info on
NIH funded grants)
National
Cancer Institute
Physicians
Data Query (PDQ from NCI)
CDC
National Center for Health Statistics
NIH
Consensus Development Program
Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
SEER
(Every
cancer statistic you could ever want to know)
Canadian
Health Network:
Clinical
Practice Guidelines from the Canadian Medical Association Journal
Cochrane
Collaboration
Association
of Health Care Journalists
National
Association of Science Writers
American
Medical Writers Association
Council
of Science Editors
Journal
of the National Cancer Institute--Cancer Spectrum
A Few Good Books
- Gastel B. Health Writer's
Handbook. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1998.
- Levi, R. Medical
journalism : exposing fact, fiction, fraud. Ames : Iowa State
University Press, 2001.
- Lang TA, Secic M. How to
Report Statistics in Medicine. Philadelphia: ACP; 1997.
- Cohn, V. News and Numbers:
A Guide to Reporting Statistical Claims and Controversies in Health
and Other Fields. Iowa State University Press; 2nd edition, 2001.

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