Information for journalists & bloggers

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit organisation providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care. [Learn more] Systematic reviews are our main product. They are published electronically in successive issues of The Cochrane Library. [Learn more]

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A news alert and press releases are produced by our publisher Wiley for each issue of The Cochrane Library to highlight to journalists some of the key healthcare conclusions and their implications for practice. Download Wiley's The Cochrane Library Media User Guide [PDF].

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Useful resources & links

Informed Health Online offers a collection of articles for journalists about medical journalism.

(the) health informaticist, a blog about knowledge translation, Web 2.0 and evidence-based medicine.

TrustTheEvidence.net, a blog providing up-to-date information on medical evidence and impact on practice.

Reviews of medical reporting are provided by non-profit websites  such as Behind the Headlines,  HealthNewsReview.org and Media Doktor.

Journalist Tool Kit produced by the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making.

Cochrane Reviews are also publicised by The Health Behavior News Service (HBNS), part of the Center for Advancing Health based in Washington, USA. HBNS disseminates news stories centered on the latest findings from systematic reviews and studies in peer-reviewed journals.

For more interesting links, browse out Webliography of EbHC resources.