TY  - JOUR
T1  - PRoviding reliable medical information to the public—caveat lector
AU  - Lundberg GD
Y1  - 1989/08/18
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1989.03430070093040
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 945
EP  - 946
VL  - 262
IS  - 7
N2  - 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
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1989.03430070093040
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03430070093040
ER  -