A recent study challenges the role that legalizing medical marijuana might play in easing the opioid epidemic.

Tip #1: Let people with disabilities speak for themselves.

Five tips for understanding and interpreting effect size -- a measure of the strength of an association between two variables.

Each year, around 88,000 people in the United States die from alcohol-related causes. We’re sharing eight tips on how journalists can improve their coverage of alcohol, based on suggestions from journalists and researchers with subject-area expertise.

"There’s some basic stuff about the laws that I think is misunderstood,” Jon Vernick, professor at JHU’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, said.

“I think there's an under appreciation of the nuance of ‘rural,’” said Mark Holmes, who directs the NC Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center.

With the amount of research published on a daily basis, journalists have to work to discern what’s worth covering. Here's a general guide.

Angilee Shah, senior editor for Global Nation, the immigration vertical for Public Radio International, spoke with Journalist’s Resource about what journalists can get wrong when covering immigration, and how they can hone their approach.

Elizabeth Arnold explains how public apathy about climate change is partly journalists' fault and offers tips to improve their coverage.

Tips from Shorenstein fellow Sarah Smarsh on how reporters can improve their coverage of rural America.