http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Scholarly journals need to ensure that their peer reviewers act constructively, respect confidentiality and avoid conflicts of interests, according to new guidelines launched by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-committee-ethics-ethical-guidelines-peer.html Other Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:02:29 EST news283428141 Clinical trials provide us with the best evidence to guide patient treatment and inform health policy. Yet, crucial information, on outcomes reported directly by patients such as their quality of life, is often left out of clinical trial publications, according to international researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-guidance-urges-important-outcomes-patients.html Other Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:38:35 EST news281270259 Two articles in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine by Geoff Wong, Trisha Greenhalgh and colleagues, propose publication guidelines for both realist synthesis and meta-narrative reviews. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-guidelines-systematic-bmc-medicine.html Other Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:00:01 EST news278613264 Spin and bias exist in a high proportion of published studies of the outcomes and adverse side-effects of phase III clinical trials of breast cancer treatments, according to new research published in the cancer journal Annals of Oncology today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-bias-published-breast-cancer-trials.html Cancer Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:30:01 EST news276960715 In this month's editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors comment on the World Health Organization's (WHO) latest World Health Report, originally planned for publication in 2012, and the outcomes of the journal's collaboration with WHO on the intended theme of "no health without research." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-plos-medicine-editors-comment-world.html Health Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:00:03 EST news267808432