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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

Shared Kismet: Wikipedia and the NIH

July 16, 2009 By Susannah Fox 14 Comments

The National Institutes of Health hosted a Wikipedia Academy today to train scientists, communications staff, and other NIH staffers in how to contribute to what has become a top source for health information in the U.S. (For more details, please see the NIH press release, a Wikipedia project page, and a Wikimedia Blog post.) The […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: National Institutes Of Health, NIH, Twitter, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia

Wikipedia as an e-patient source–Susannah Fox

June 5, 2007 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Read this quote and think about which industry is being admonished: “We cannot, however, continue to reject Wikipedia because we aren’t comfortable with the wiki process itself… To be quite frank, continually bad-mouthing Wikipedia to the very people who use it—successfully—makes us look a bit daft. It would be much more productive to teach [people] […]

Filed Under: pts as teachers Tagged With: librarians, parents, patients, students, teachers, Wikipedia

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