Jacklyn Lochridge

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MedReport Foundation article out 5/16!

I love diving into data, putting the parts together, and making it all make sense for the target audience. I'm itching to get out of the lab and onto your writing team!

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Medical — Plain Language

MedReport Foundation
02/03/2026
Placebo Not Needed: Controls in Clinical Trials

What is a control? If you've ever read a news article or seen an advertisement about a new medication, you may have heard of placebo-controlled trials. A placebo-controlled trial is used to prove that a new medication or treatment is better at treating a target condition than nothing.

MedReport Foundation
11/24/2025
The Blind Leading the Blind? Clinical Study Design

Why Clinical Trials? When new treatments are being developed, there comes a point when they must be evaluated on humans. This ensures that new treatments are both safe and effective. In the United States, human testing occurs in multiple phases called clinical trials.

MedReport Foundation
01/01/2026
The Method to the Medicine

What is the Scientific Method? You may not remember the science classes you took in school, but those classes probably introduced you to the scientific method. If you entered a science fair, you almost certainly used the scientific method to formulate a question and hypothesis, design experiments to test the hypothesis, and reach conclusions about your question.

MedReport Foundation
11/12/2025
New Hope For Sjögren's Disease Treatment

What is Sjögren's Disease? People living with Sjögren's disease know it's not just dryness. The disease causes joint pain and swelling, life-altering fatigue, small fiber neuropathy, lymphoma, tooth loss, and an inability to cry, to name a few symptoms and sequelae. Some sufferers have little to no dryness but experience disability from other other symptoms and secondary conditions.

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Not So Fun Guys

Fungal infections are underdiagnosed and under-reported. Along with emerging resistance to medications, the lack of information is a One Health issue.

MedReport Foundation
08/01/2025
BRCA Mutations: What You Need to Know

Cancer and BRCA Basics Cancer is an ever-present enemy in modern life. It is estimated that in the United States alone, 2025 will see over 2 million diagnosed cases of cancer. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women (after skin cancer) and is second to lung cancer for cancer deaths in women.

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