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Health in the Media: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

David looks at some of the latest health stories in the media.

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What if we have evidence but we can’t access it?

David blogs about Open Access. The practice of free, online, immediate access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly research with full re-use rights
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Addressing uncertainties in treatment decisions: a presentation by Martin Burton

Webinar given by Martin Burton, Director of the UK Cochrane Centre, on the addressing uncertainties in treatment decisions. He also suggests some good books and websites.
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NHS Health Checks: what’s the evidence?

David writes about the UK Government’s recent plans to introduce health checks.

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Health in the Media: American Special

David takes a look at health in the media. This week from America, when he’s meant to be on his holidays.
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Health in the media: the good, the bad and the ugly – 20th June Daily Mail special

David takes a look at the evidence behind health news in the media. 20th June.

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Learning about evidence-based healthcare by reading journal articles: cholesterol drugs and risk

David explains risk and number needed to treat using an article from the New England Journal of Medicine
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Health in the media: the good, the bad and the ugly – 13th June

David takes a look at the evidence behind the good, bad and ugly of medical news in the media. Week 2- 13th June 2013
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Health in the media: the good, the bad and the ugly: painkillers, superfoods, and the pill

David takes a look at the evidence behind the good, bad and ugly of medical news in the media. Week 1-6th June 2013
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How do we solve a problem like choosing statistical tests?

This tutorial covers how to use appropriate statistical tests and what are confidence intervals and how do you use them.
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Interested in RCTs and Meta-Analysis? This is for you!

This is a tutorial that looks at the statistical basis of randomised controlled trials, the theory behind meta-analyses and how to read a meta-analysis
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Information literacy is important in Evidence-Based Healthcare

This is an information skills tutorial that provides the opportunity for students to learn more about searching for information
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Putting the evidence back into evidence-based medicine: the Alltrials campaign

AllTrials, putting the evidence back in evidence-based medicine.
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PharmAware: let’s build an ethical future for healthcare

PharmAware is a network of students committed to the use of the best evidence in healthcare.

David Carroll

Medical Student, Queen's University Belfast. When I'm not a medical student, I do PharmAware (wwww.pharmaware.co.uk) and Medsin (www.medsin.org) too. I like science, epidemiology, EBM, global health, really bad jokes and cats. I'm predominantly found on twitter. Email me: carroll.davide@gmail.com

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