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Tue 23 Mar, 2010 06:10 am
AP/Boston Globe = AP and Boston Globe? Or "AP's Boston Glope"?
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Women who take the birth control pill are more likely to live longer than women who have never taken the pill, according to a study published Friday in the British medical journal BMJ, the AP/Boston Globe reports. Researchers in the United Kingdom followed more than 46,000 women who took the pill and then compared the mortality rate of those women with women who did not take birth control pills. The women in the study generally took the pill for almost four years. Researchers followed the women for about 40 years, beginning in 1968.
The study found that the pill reduced the women's risk of death from bowel cancer by 38% and from other diseases by about 12%. Although the death rate among women on the pill under age 30 was slightly higher compared with the other women, the trend began to reverse by age 50. The researchers noted that they could not offer any theories about cause and effect because they only observed and compared women who took the pill with women who did not.
According to the AP/Globe, past research has found that the pill does not increase the risk of dying, and while it has the potential to protect against ovarian and endometrial cancer, it may raise the chances of breast and cervical cancer (Cheng, AP/Boston Globe, 3/13).
It means AP and the Boston Globe. AP stands for Associated Press, and is a news "wire service," which means that they have reporters all over the world, and provide news reports on all subjects 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It is possible that this citation means a story reported in the Boston Globe, which was based on an Associated Press (AP) report.
AP is the Associated Press through them freelance journalists and photographers sell stories and photos to other news agencies
Boston Globe is a news paper in Boston, in the United States
There are three major, international news wire services: AP, UPI (United Press International) and Reuters. You might see any of these three at the beginning of a news story in a newspaper, and it will mean that the report has been provided by the wire service in question.
.Set's probably right, that someone at AP wrote the story, the AP provided it and whoever wrote your paragraph then read it in the Globe, which just published it. Boston has a lot of major hospitals, med schools, and med research, and the Globe writes up a fair amount of its medical news itself, so it's also possible, tho less likely that they contributed some stuff to the article themselves, as well as the AP stuff. Hard to tell from the attribution.
If you google any current event and look at the hits, the source may be a particular newspaper or media outlet, but the content will be exactly the same as the story from a different newspaper or media outlet (or blog). That's because the original source of all of them is a wire story from AP or Reuters (or a press release, maybe, from some organizsation or university, or research group, etc.).
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