Fabio Turone's Page

Fabio Turone, science journalist

This page is out of date: you will be soon redirected
to Fabio Turone's updated website at the
Zoe Agency of Medical and Scientific Information
in Milan, Italy
(Agenzia Zoe di informazione medica e scientifica, Milano, Italia)

Who am I
A few clips
The websites I edit
My collection of professional links

RESUME

I'm an Italian journalist specialized in medical issues, with a particular interest toward the Internet.
I write for - and am partner in - an Agency of science writing that was founded in Milan in 1994 (its name, Zadig, comes from a novel by the French philosopher Voltaire).
The agency - which is an operative unit of the Italian Cochrane Center for the evidence-based medicine - contributes articles on scientific and medical topics to many Italian media, and edits some specialistic journals for MDs (among others the weekly Tempo Medico, the oldest Italian journal for general practitioner, born in 1959).
In addition, I work as vice editor-in-chief of the monthly for pediatricians Occhio Clinico Pediatria, and editor of the Internet edition of the monthly for general practitioners Occhio Clinico.

I can manage writing in English and French, read and speak spanish quite well and I'm studying German (but don't ask me to read or write yet...).

A FEW CLIPS

Here are a few samples of my writing, in English (revised, I must admit, by the British medical Journal's news editor) and Italian, available online:

From the British Medical Journal:
NEWS
Italy starts trials for controversial cancer treatment
BMJ 1998; 316: 327.

NEWS
Italian GPs suspended for accepting bribes
BMJ 1998; 316: 1261

NEWS
Smoking in Italy
BMJ 1998; 316: 723.

From the Italian bi-monthly Telema:
Medicina senza frontiere molte speranze, qualche rischio

La simulazione del male è un vero prodigio, digitale

Che errore e quanti rischi se Internet diventa una farmacia (intervista con Silvio Garattini)

WEB SITES

And here are some of the websites I designed and edit:

Occhio Clinico - Italian monthly for general practitioners

Tempo Medico - Italian weekly for general practitioners (I only contributed to the website design)

Italian Cochrane Center

AIE - Italian Association of Epidemiology