Linking Health News to Medical Literature

One-click medical literature search as you read health news articles.

Linking Health News to Medical Literature - Chrome Extension

Linking Health News to Medical Literature is a Chrome browser extension developed by the @LANTIS Lab at Syracuse University. It allows users to fact check health news articles by pointing them to the original PubMed research paper. Currently, it supports EurekAlert.org.
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Extension stats

By: Jun Wang
Users: 32
3
Version: 0.0.4 (Last updated: 2022-02-25)
Creation date: 2021-03-11
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • https://static.doodlebook.org/news2paper/*
Size: 83.67K

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Extension summary

News2PubMed is a Chrome browser extension that can help users fact check health news by pointing them to the original PubMed research paper when they browse health-related news articles.

Currently we only support: EurekAlert.org.

To facilitate users to play with the extension, we provide a page at https://junwang4.github.io/demo-news2pubmed. There a user can play with a list of news items that are randomly sampled from EurekAlert.org.

News2PubMed is developed by the @LANTIS Lab at Syracuse University. (https://atlantis.ischool.syr.edu/)

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Risk impact

Linking Health News to Medical Literature requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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