Links To Other Resources

A collection of other resources for evaluating claims & analyzing news coverage

• The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making – non-profit organization that has been the sole sponsor of this project since it was launched in 2006.
• Media Doctor Australia – pioneering site, first of many comparable international efforts
• Media Doctor Canada – run by our friend Alan Cassels
• Medien Doktor – the German HealthNewsReview – run by our friends Marcus Anhäuser and Holger Wormer. I helped train their reviewers.
• Media Doctor Hong Kong
• Media Doctor Japan
• NHS Choices Behind the Headlines – British site that touches on news coverage but focuses more on evaluating research upon which news is based.
• Medizin-transparent.at – Austrian site similar to British “Behind the Headlines
• Association of Health Care Journalists
• Statement of Principles for Association of Health Care Journalists
• Disease Mongering info on SourceWatch.org site
• Tipsheet for reporting on drugs, devices and medical technologies
• Cochrane Library
• Therapeutics Initiative/Therapeutics Letter
• Healthy Skepticism
• Testing Treatments