Learn why effective risk communication in public health matters and where you can get started in learning how to better communicate research evidence.
Sense About Science brings free media workshops focussing on ‘Standing Up for Science’ to early-careers researchers in the UK – Heidi reviews the workshop.
If you’ve read a newspaper or seen the news over the couple of weeks there’s a good chance you’ll have seen a few pretty terrifying headlines related to Alzheimer’s disease… So can you really catch Alzheimer’s disease from blood transfusions, dental visits or surgery? In short: no. Here’s how we know: 1. This was a very small, observational study 8 patients were studied in a purely observational manner; there was no randomisation, control group or blinding. The data is comprised of
In the second in our series of articles reviewing the health evidence tools produced by McMaster University, Harkanwal Randhawa examines Health Evidence™, a database of systematic reviews around the subject of public health.
PDQ-Evidence is a database specifically for finding evidence related to public health and health policy.
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