Beyond Dr. Google: How social media can improve our health
The third in a series on the credibility of health information on the Web
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Julia Belluz
Julia Belluz is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist covering health care and policy. A Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, she writes the blog/column ‘Science-ish’ for Maclean’s and the Medical Post about the evidence behind the health headlines.
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Is Hélène Campbell right about the organ donor crisis?
Part two in a series on life and death on the Internet
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Readers respond to Science-ish blogger Julia Belluz
Health Canada responds to questions about hidden clinical trial data
Timeline for web-based listing remains unclear
Dear Leona Aglukkaq: Researchers write the health minister on clinical trials
Letters detail the downside of a ’web-based listing’
Throwing off the chains of mental illness in Ethiopia
Modernizing mental health care in a land where priests are often on the front lines
Dear Federal Minister of Health
Science-ish asks Leona Aglukkaq to consider four ideas before moving forward with a clinical trials list in Canada
Who’s to blame for the whooping cough outbreak?
Julia Bellus answers reader questions on vaccines