Copy editors "merely" prepare content, some publishers say, and don't we have Web editors to do that?

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According to a posting on the Journal's Web site, editors at the world's top medical journal found by examining a computer diskette that relevant data about Vioxx's risk to the heart compared with an older pain drug, naproxen, were deleted two days before the paper was initially submitted to the Journal.

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But more and more publications are laying off their copy editors, replacing them with Web designers or more reporters, or with nothing.

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In the early days, Leeds notes, there were a team of editors who looked up information on Web sites and created templates for answering questions.

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Link up to Web journals like iMedicalApps where tech-centric physician-editors track mobile medical tech and healthcare apps.

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These bacteria-infested attractions have topped an unusual list compiled by editors at TripAdvisor.com, a travel advice Web site.

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M. today, Curfman and two other editors released an editorial on The New England Journal's Web site entitled "Expression of Concern, " which calls on the VIGOR authors to submit a correction of the 2000 manuscript.

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The editors bought their efforts and are now investing in expanding on the web.

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Because under the US Freedom of Information legislation the UN has released on the Web the comments of reviewers who assessed the drafts of the WG I report and the IPCC editors' responses.

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