The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "medicine" ...
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Health Care on the Beat: Investigating Doctors and Drugs
Wilson's tipsheet covers the health care beat - from doctors to drugs. The tipsheet contains information on the approach to your coverage and many useful links.
Tags: pharmaceuticals; drugs; medicine; health care; doctors; physicians
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Health Care Survival Guide: Investigating America's Hospitals
Berens tipsheet addresses how to cover the health & science beat. He begins by stressing the 3 F's: "follow the paper; find the expert; and ferret out the research." Berens gives a list of basic public records pertinent to the beat; available databases; and "real world advice" based on his own experience covering health and science.
Tags: health; science; FOIA; medical research; medicine; hospitals; adverse event reporting; MAUDE; Manufacterer and User Facility Device Experience; Excluded Individuals Database
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Sports Science and Medicine: Gettnig Beyond the Gee-Wiz Story
Epstein lists and describes some interesting sports investigations that any reporter could do, anywhere in the country. Examples include pre-participation screening of high school athletes and analyzing nutritional supplements.
Tags: sports; beat reporting; athletes; sources; high school athletes
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Spanish Translation of "Investigating the Medical World/Big Pharma's Shameful Secret: Clinical Trials
This is the Spanish translation of tipsheet #2697. David Evans aclara varios terminos y asuntos medicos ademas de dar consejos utiles para ayudar a los reporteros que cubren el mundo de la medicina. Da informacion sobre las oficinas que supervisan los experimentos/estudios clinicos, las formas de autorizacion que deben ser firmadas por los participantes en dichos estudios, y da una lista de paginas web que pueden ser de utilidad.
Tags: Big Pharma; estudios clinicos; pruebas; experimentos; espanol; 2697;
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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
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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
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Investigating the Medical World/Big Pharma's Shameful Secret: Criminal Trials
David Evans offers a number of clarifications of confusing medical terms and issues, along with other helpful hints that can aid reporters who are investigating the medical world and/or pharmaceutical industry. He gives information on institutional review boards, informed consent, among others, and also provides a list of helpful Web sites. En espanol: #2907.
Tags: Big Pharma; Medicine; Hospitals; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health care
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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
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Uncovering the Secrets of Seroxat
The author recounts each stage of the BBC Panorama investigation into the drug Seroxat, which is known as Paxil in the United States. It is one of the world's most prescribed anti-depressants, and it is addictive and can cause self-harm and suicide in some patients. The BBC investigation also found that the drug was sometimes tested on children.
Tags: prescription medicine; drug companies; television journalism; broadcast news; health
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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