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Health Geek Tip: Abstracts are ads. Read full studies when you can.–Susannah Fox

June 16, 2010 By Susannah Fox 16 Comments

Ivan Oransky, executive editor of Reuters Health, provided excellent evidence yesterday regarding the need to look past abstracts of journal articles if accuracy matters to you:

Filed Under: research issues Tagged With: cancer, Gary Schwitzer, Gilles Frydman, HealthNewsReview, Ivan Oransky, national cancer institute, Wikipedia

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