RT Journal
A1 Lundberg GD
T1 PRoviding reliable medical information to the public—caveat lector
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1989
FD August 18
VO 262
IS 7
SP 945
OP 946
DO 10.1001/jama.1989.03430070093040
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03430070093040
AB I find the high level of interest of the public in its health to be one of the most gratifying aspects of current times. Informed persons wish to take charge of their lives. Information about diagnosis, treatment, and especially disease prevention and health promotion is avidly sought by the old and young alike. And why shouldn't it be? After all, it has significance for their own lives. It is altogether fitting that the public wishes to be informed about the newest medical research. Since the public pays for the vast majority of medical and scientific research with its tax money, the public, in right, owns the information.Efforts From Our Journals 
    Most daily newspapers and many magazines publish articles about medical research. Some of the leading newspapers have routine weekly science coverage or even full sections dedicated to health and medicine. Radio and television stations frequently have 10- to 90-second