Understanding illnesses
Health journos might find the online tutorials from the US
National Cancer Institute helpful when reporting certain diseases and syndromes. The tutorials, called
Science - Behind the News, are easy to follow and well-drawn, and aim to make complex material intelligible to the layperson. Current offerings include info on cancer, gene testing, nanodevices and cancer, the immune system, angiogenesis and more. Some are also available in Spanish.
http://press2.nci.nih.gov/sciencebehind/
Posted by belinda at September 29, 2003 11:23 AM