Isla McBride edits Health for Dateline Wire, covering medicine, public health, health policy and medical research. Health reporting carries real-world consequences, so her section operates under the desk's most conservative rules: findings are attributed to the specific study, agency or health authority that produced them; relative and absolute risk are not conflated; preliminary or animal-stage research is labelled as such; and no story offers medical advice — it reports what named authorities said, with dates. Isla reviews every Health story that involves dosage figures, case counts or mortality data against the original source material before it is published. Contact: [email protected].
