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Peer Review Report: Hames: Medical Literature "Polluted"
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News and Comment from the Peer Review Congress in Chicago. Monday, September 9, 2013. Hames: Medical Literature "Polluted". Cosponsored by The JAMA Network. The 3-day congress continues Monday with 7 studies on bias, 3 on trial registration, and 4 on data sharing and accessibility. The day will conclude with the annual EQUATOR lecture by Kay Dickersin of the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Be sure to follow @BELS Edito...Peer ...
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Haley Writing Solutions
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Medical Writing Career Links. Medical Writing Career Links. Medical writing is a Great and Rewarding Career. Here is some inspiration from your peers. Editor, Mayo Clinic). Grant Writer, University Health Network). Veteran Editor, Texas Heart Institute). Veteran, Continuing Medical Education). Creating a Writing Portfolio. Some useful web pages. Has great articles on how to gain clients, break into meeting coverage, and operates a weekly job list. Has great links to handy information sources.
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Delawriter newsletter from AMWA-DVC
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The quarterly newsletter of AMWA-DVC. 10th Annual Freelance Workshop. 16th Annual Princeton Conference. Fall 2011 AMWA Board Meeting. Become a Master Networker. OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE. By Brian Bass and Lori De Milto. Everyone's an expert about something. What's your expertise, and will you share it with your AMWA colleagues? Give us your idea for a short session, breakfast roundtable, or poster. EUREKA! Deadline for submitting ideas: February 27, 2012. Poster presenta...
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Peer Review Report: Liz Wager and Irene Hames Coming Soon
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News and Comment from the Peer Review Congress in Chicago. Saturday, September 7, 2013. Liz Wager and Irene Hames Coming Soon. Will soon feature posts based on exclusive interviews with 2 more thought leaders in the emerging field of peer review research. These should make ideal reading for congress attendees who are en route to Chicago, as well as life science editors who stayed home this weekend and who are looking for an excuse to avoid doing the laundry or cutting the grass. Will be eaten here. Famil...
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Peer Review Report: Credits
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News and Comment from the Peer Review Congress in Chicago. Cover photo of Chicago skyline by J. Crocker, via Wikimedia Commons. Eye photo courtesy of National Eye Institute. Ear photo courtesy of David Benbennick via Wikimedia Commons. Nose photo courtesy of Andrew Levine via Wikimedia Commons. Crow photo courtesy of Tony Hisgett via Wikimedia Commons. Andrew Bowser, Narberth, Pennsylvania. Patrick Burke, Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Donald Harting MD, MPH, Wilmington, Delaware. Ian Lloyd, Swindon, UK.
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Peer Review Report: BMJ's Godlee: Can We Trust These Results?
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News and Comment from the Peer Review Congress in Chicago. Wednesday, September 11, 2013. BMJ's Godlee: Can We Trust These Results? Fiona Godlee MD, Editor-in-Chief, BMJ. Just one day after an impassioned plea for more trust among members of the world's biomedical publishing community, one of the world's leading medical editors is wondering whether she can trust some of the information published in her own journal. Clinicians are asking "Why are these studies appearing in these high impact journals?
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Peer Review Report: "Cancer at the Core of Evidence-Based Medicine"
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News and Comment from the Peer Review Congress in Chicago. Tuesday, October 1, 2013. Cancer at the Core of Evidence-Based Medicine". Image Courtesy of Wikipedia. If you've been following this blog, you may enjoy this 13-minute TED Talk recorded last year. It features Ben Goldacre (pictured left), a British physician and science writer who's on a mission to expose the public health dangers of clinical trials that never get published. October 2, 2013 at 1:51 PM. Don Harting MA, ELS, CCMEP. Thanks Don, for ...
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Peer Review Report: Can an Author be Too Prolific?
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News and Comment from the Peer Review Congress in Chicago. Monday, September 9, 2013. Can an Author be Too Prolific? In the publish-or-perish world of academic and industrial research, it's easy to get caught up in the mindset that more publication credits are better than fewer. But is that always true? For this congress, Wager teamed up with a systems analyst and an editor from The Lancet. For coverage of the meeting's final day, be sure to follow @BELS Editors. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hors ...
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Peer Review Report: Raking Muck via PubMed
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News and Comment from the Peer Review Congress in Chicago. Saturday, September 7, 2013. Raking Muck via PubMed. Apparently a private company has developed software that can work in tandem with PubMed, the. 8220;Too Much of a Good Thing? A Study of Prolific Authors” takes a deep dive into the numbers behind PubMed citations. Further aromatic details are embargoed for release until Sunday. Be sure to follow @BELS Editors. On Twitter for updates. September 8, 2013 at 8:04 PM. Peer Review Report welcomes com...
