Category: Correlation Causation

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 6 October 1997 The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute[1] has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1997 to Stanley B. Prusiner for his discovery of “Prions – a new biological principle of infection”. Summary The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is...

Abstract Background Exaggerated or simplistic news is often blamed for adversely influencing public health. However, recent findings suggested many exaggerations were already present in university press releases, which scientists approve. Surprisingly, these exaggerations were not associated with more news coverage. Here we test whether these two controversial results also arise in press releases from prominent science and medical journals. We...

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Introduction Media regularly report on health research results. Since randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for questions about benefits and harms of medical interventions, it would be expected that results from RCTs with patient-relevant endpoints would be reported in the media more frequently than observational studies. However, studies with lower methodological quality are cited just as frequently [1–3]....