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Evidence-Based Medicine

A Simple Method for Evaluating the Clinical Literature

Changing clinical behaviour by making guidelines specific

Evaluating the teaching of evidence based medicine: conceptual framework (BMJ)

Evidence based guidelines or collectively constructed "mindlines?" Ethnographic study of knowledge management in primary care (BMJ)

Evidence based medicine has come a long way

Evidence base: rock of certainty or shifting sands?

"Evidence of me" in evidence based medicine? (BMJ)

Evidence-Based Medicine or Faith-Based Medicine? (Medscape General Medicine)

Evidence-based public health: an evolving concept. (Am J Prev Med)

Evidence-based retrieval in evidence-based medicine. (J Med Libr Assoc)

From optimism to hubris

General practitioners say that evidence based information is changing practice

Integrating evidence based medicine into routine clinical practice: seven years' experience at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London (BMJ)

On the challenges of using evidence-based information: the role of clinical uncertainty. (J Lab Clin Med)

Putting evidence into practice: how middle and low income countries "get it together" (BMJ)

The essence of EBM

The importance and impact of evidence-based medicine. (J Manag Care Pharm)

Users' guide to detecting misleading claims in clinical research reports

What has evidence based medicine done for us?

What is evidence-based medicine and why should I care? (Respir Care)

What is the evidence that postgraduate teaching in evidence based medicine changes anything? A systematic review (BMJ)

What's the E for EBM?

Internet Medical-Health Information

Advice available on the Internet for people with coeliac disease: an evaluation of the quality of websites. (J Hum Nutr Diet)

An evaluation of web-based information. (Int J Eat Disord)

An evaluation of the contents and quality of menopause information on the World Wide Web. (Maturitas)

Evaluation of the quality and contents of diabetes mellitus patient education on Internet. (Patient Educ Couns)

Finding qualitative research: an evaluation of search strategies. (BMC Med Res Methodol)

Inaccurate Information About Lyme Disease on the Internet. (Pediatr Infect Dis J)

Internet is indeed useful source for patients with cancer

Optimal search strategies for retrieving scientifically strong studies of diagnosis from Medline: analytical survey (BMJ)

Patient education and the internet: do patients want us to provide them with medical web sites to learn more about their medical problems? (J Emerg Med)

Patient Internet use for health information at three urban primary care clinics. (J Am Med Inform Assoc)

The Effect of Top-Level Domains and Advertisements on Health Web-site Credibility (Journal of Medical Internet Research)

The Internet as medical adviser?

Warning on internet health advice

Patient Safety

Alzheimer's study led to warning about naproxen

Contracts Keep Drug Research Out of Reach

FDA is incapable of protecting US "against another Vioxx"

FDA Vet Blows Whistle on "Broken" Agency

Gaps between best evidence and practice: causes for concern. (Med J Aust)

Hospitals that follow heart attack guidelines save lives

Journal calls for new system to monitor post-marketing drug safety

One in 12 older people are prescribed the wrong drug

Patient safety; Remember who it's really for. (Int J Med Inf)

Poor communication: root of most patient safety ills. (ED Manag)

Strattera May Cause Hepatotoxicity

Study Suggests How Cox Drugs Cause Heart Disease

That Hand You're About To Shake May Prove a Hazard to Your Health

The Epidemiology of Prescribing Errors (Arch Intern Med)

Medical Ethics-Advertising

A prospective before-and-after trial of an educational intervention about pharmaceutical marketing. (Acad Med)

Bias seen in U.S. drug study reporting

Consumer organisations criticise influence of drug companies

Crestor ads draw fire; FDA could act

Crossing professional boundaries in medicine: the slippery slope to patient sexual exploitation. (Med J Aust)

Direct to consumer advertising

Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising (Arch Intern Med)

Doctor Faults Aggressive Painkiller Ads

Doctors and drug companies are locked in "vicious circle"

Drug company influence extends to nurses, pharmacists, and patient groups

Editor claims drug companies have a "parasitic" relationship with journals

Excess in the pharmaceutical industry

Gifts to physicians from the pharmaceutical and medical manufacturing industry: what every physician should know. (J La State Med Soc)

Industry guidelines, laws and regulations ignored: quality of drug advertising in medical journals. (Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf)

Killing me softly: myth in pharmaceutical advertising

Lilly Shares Fall on Report About Prozac Documents

Medical Doctors Versus Spin Doctors: Sorting Through Conflicting Information

Medical students' exposure to pharmaceutical industry marketing: a survey at one U.S. medical school. (Acad Med)

Officials reject claims of drug industry's influence

Pfizer criticised over delay in admitting drug's problems

Pfizer to Halt Advertising of Celebrex to Consumers

[Physicians and drug industry: attitudes and practice] (Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen)

Some patient studies show bias, could affect patient treatment: study

The whole truth and nothing but the truth? The research that Philip Morris did not want you to see

To your health, and drug firms' too

Vioxx, the implosion of Merck, and aftershocks at the FDA

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Clinical presentation of hypernatremic dehydration in exclusively breast-fed neonates. (Indian J Pediatr)

Evaluation of metal and microbial contamination in botanical supplements. (J Agric Food Chem)

Excess antibiotics linked to allergy woes

NGC-Caregiving strategies for older adults with delirium, dementia and depression.

Nutrition and cancer: A review of the evidence for an anti-cancer diet (Nutrition Journal)

Obese People Can't Run From Health Risks

Painkillers may damage small intestines

Radon in the home responsible for 9% of lung cancer deaths across Europe (BMJ)

Staying Active Keeps Mind Sharp in Old Age

To Treat Autism, Parents Take a Leap of Faith

Tomato phytochemicals and prostate cancer risk. (J Nutr)

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