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• The Health Beat: Drugs and Doctors

  McKie offers fifteen tips for beginning an investigation into the Canadian health care system. His tips include "scour discussion groups to find out what people are talking about" and "pay attention to lawsuits."

  Tags: health; doctors; sources; story ideas

  By David McKie

  2008

• Investigating Public Health

  Tips on asses performance, tracking the money and examining the perks of health care.

  Tags: health; medical; doctors; hospitals

  By Alison Young

  2007

• Researching Doctors (a supplement to Dismantling the Experts)

  A list of databases for researching doctors.

  Tags: doctors; database; medical; research

  By Larry Lopez

  2007

• Diagnosing Medical Data

  This tipsheet explains the basic way medical evidence is obtained and analyzed. It contains a glossary of medical studies, along with their definitions, and a list of questions to ask yourself when looking at medical data.

  Tags: health care; medicine; doctors; medical studies; medical terms; disease

  By Laura Beil

  2006

• Investigating the health industry

  McKie and Reber outline the investigative process behind their IRE Award-winning series, Prescribed to Death. They summarize ten strategies that enabled them to construct and original, comprehensive investigation.

  Tags: health care; health; medicine; pharmaceuticals; drugs; medical; doctors; hospitals; research; prescriptions; senior citizens; retirees

  By David McKie, Susanne Reber

  2006

• Tips for reporting on vaccines, mercury and autism

  Lists numerous sources for reporting on autism and vaccines, ranging from research groups to doctors to government agencies. It also lists relevant web sites and journalists who have reported on autism and vaccines.

  Tags: pharmaceuticals; science; mercury; autism; vaccines; drugs; public health; disabilities

  By David Kirby

  2006

• Investigating Medical Malpractice

  This tipsheet lists website that can help reporters get information about doctors and their histories of medical malpractice claims. The list includes the Federation of State Medical Boards and the National Practitioners Databank. All together there are seven websites listed.

  Tags: hospitals; doctors; medicine; lawsuits; court; American Medical Association

  By Fred Schulte

  2006

• Tipsheet: Investigating the pharmaceutical industry

  The author offers ten tips on investigating the pharmaceutical industry, The tipsheet include "Think through what effect your story might have on patients," and "Try to find out who is organizing the continuing medical education in your country." Each tip has a detailed explanation. The tipsheet ends with lists of websites and books that are useful when researching this topic.

  Tags: medicine; drug companies; pharmacists; doctors; big business; health; health care

  By Shelley Jofre

  2005

• Reporting global pandemics: How to keep focussed on asking the right questions and getting the right answers

  Abraham prepares journalists to cover dangerous pandemics, like the SARS crisis in 2003. Drawing from the experiences of journalists who covered SARS in Hong Kong, Abraham discusses how it will be difficult for journalists to find credible experts. He suggests journalists focus on finding answers to a few questions that will be the most important to readers and audiences.

  Tags: scientists; disease; SARS; epidemic; health crisis; medical journalism; doctors; health scare

  By Thomas Abraham

  2005

• Media Coverage of the SARS Epidemic: Lessons learned from SARS

  The author shares the findings of a research project into the media coverage of SARS in China. At the end of the tipsheet, the author offers five pieces of advice for journalists beginning similar projects.

  Tags: SARS; health; disease; medicine; doctors; hospitals; health care journalism

  By Sun Yu

  2005