PEDIATRICS Vol. 30 No. 1 July 1962, pp. 159-160
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Release of Information to the Lay Press

AVRUM LABE KATCHER M.D.1

1 Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington, New Jersey

A recurrent problem is the release of information about pediatric research by investigators to the lay press prior to, or without, any dissemination of adequate information in the professional literature. The pediatrician, all too frequently, must provide guidance and advice to parents who have read articles or stories in newspapers or magazines, without being able to speak from his own reading or from information derived by personal contact or attendance at meetings and postgraduate courses. The recent proliferation of free throwaway periodicals has compounded the problem.