Journalist’s Trade

As she moves between being a doctor and a medical journalist, loyalties are divided.

Medical Journalism Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Journalism and Mass Communication. As one of the nation’s first master’s programs in medical journalism, the…

A family doctor prescribes eight guiding principles for accurate and fair coverage of research findings.

For a variety of reasons, neither the government nor the press handled the medical crisis well.

‘I’d essentially planned to do a story about dying people with no real hope of a cure acting as guinea pigs.’

A journalist reminds us about how tricky putting ‘facts’ into perspective can be.

A medical editor’s book provides advice and guidance for journalists.

Never use the word “miracle.” Leave that to ministers, mayonnaise-makers and sports-writers. Don’t use “breakthrough.” Breakthroughs are infrequent and this word, like controversy, is so overused that it has lost…

A journalist tracks where and how a medical story began and how its content came to be exaggerated.

A reporter explores connections between increased rates of cancer and the changing lifestyle of Alaska Natives.