It is wise to read original studies if at all possible, using the evaluation techniques offered in the Caveat Corner section of this site. Many if not most of them can be found on one or more of the sites below. In other cases only the abstracts will be found - a second best alternative. Press releases or reports are a suspect source of information and should be taken with a large grain of salt.
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Feedback from readers is appended to the article summaries. The articles are primarily in the field of adult internal medicine and mainly from the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA and the Lancet. There is no commercial funding for this project, which is intended as an independent forum where the medical literature can be summarized and critiqued. Furthermore, a number of authors of the articles reviewed here have participated. This opens up the exciting perspective of an ongoing dialog between article authors and their readers.