Making Sense of Medical Headlines

Date: 
06/04/2012
Contributor: 
Karen Brown
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Every week, it seems, there's a new medical study in the headlines that contradicts last week's medical study. Epidemiologist Marya Zilberberg  -- a professor at UMass-Amherst -- tries to put all that information in context in her new book, "Between the Lines: Finding the Truth in Medical Literature". Zilberberg tells New England Public Radio's Karen Brown why people need help figuring out which medical discoveries are worth heeding.

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