Press release and media distort complex message

ASUM Press Release

At the recent ISUOG meeting in Los Angeles, there was great debate about the current cut-off s we use to defi ne miscarriage using transvaginal ultrasound. In particular, the guidelines used by both the RCOG and ASUM are not conservative enough and may lead to false positive diagnosis of miscarriage. In routine practice, when there is a suspicion of a non-viable pregnancy, we rely on the measur...

Partisan Bias in Message Selection: Media Gatekeeping of Party Press Releases

Parties try to shape media coverage in ways that are favorable to them, but what determines whether media outlets pick up and report on party messages? Based on content analyses of 1,496 party press releases and 6,512 media reports from the 2013 Austrian parliamentary election campaign, we show that media coverage of individual party messages is influenced not just by news factors, but also by ...

GSA press release - Geology August 2016

Part of figure 1. from highlighted article by Gioncada et al. A: Main baleen features of an extant rorqual, at different scales; tubule diameter ~0.5 mm (modified and redrawn from Szewciw et al., 2010). B: Location of Cerro Colorado, Peru. C: Left baleen rack of the balaenopteroid specimen M1 as found in the field, with drawing showing the original position in the whale skull. D: Right baleen r...

Press Release: Siemens Healthineers presents imaging for complex, minimally invasive procedures

Siemens Healthineers is helping cardiology customers optimize medical imaging at every stage of cardiology treatment as part of a comprehensive workflow. One focus at this year’s Congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is the trend toward more minimally invasive interventions, especially in more complex cases. Medical imaging in diagnostics, therapy and follow-up is essential in th...

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