Causal interpretation of correlational studies – Analysis of medical news on the website of the official journal for German physicians

Exaggerations and Caveats in Press Releases and Health-Related Science News

(2016) Petroc Sumner et al.   PLoS One

Negative statin-related news stories decrease statin persistence and increase myocardial infarction and cardiovascular mortality: a nationwide prospective cohort study

(2015) Sune Fallgaard Nielsen et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Media Coverage, Journal Press Releases and Editorials Associated with Randomized and Observational Studies in High-Impact Medical Journals: A Cohort Study

(2015) Michael T. M. Wang et al.   PLoS One

Representations of the health value of vitamin D supplementation in newspapers: media content analysis

(2015) Timothy Caulfield et al.   BMJ Open

Impact of Spin in the Abstracts of Articles Reporting Results of Randomized Controlled Trials in the Field of Cancer: The SPIIN Randomized Controlled Trial

(2014) Isabelle Boutron et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

Media Coverage of Medical Journals: Do the Best Articles Make the News?

(2014) Senthil Selvaraj et al.   PLoS One

The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: retrospective observational study

(2014) P. Sumner et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Press Releases by Academic Medical Centers: Not So Academic?

(2013) Steven Woloshin et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Misrepresentation of Randomized Controlled Trials in Press Releases and News Coverage: A Cohort Study

(2012) Amélie Yavchitz et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Reporting and Interpretation of Randomized Controlled Trials With Statistically Nonsignificant Results for Primary Outcomes

(2010) Isabelle Boutron   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Can Animal Models of Disease Reliably Inform Human Studies?

(2010) H. Bart van der Worp et al.   PLOS MEDICINE