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A group of journalists will spend three partial days online with experts from the National Institutes of Health in January…
Lead time bias is a well-recognized challenge especially when it comes to studies and statistics looking at cancer screenings. As…
When I first began writing in health and science journalism, my biggest “micro-beat” was vaccines (and still is). I had…
An under-reported public health story is the connection between infectious diseases and cancer. In December 2019, a report in Lancet…
Research has long shown that Americans from minority groups and those with a lower socioeconomic status are less likely to…
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Ten journalists have been chosen for the 2019 class of the National Cancer Reporting Fellowships. AHCJ will be presenting the…
Physicians in all fields of medicine rely on guidelines developed by professional medical organizations to inform how they care for…
Alexandra Glorioso, a Florida health reporter for Politico, joined AHCJ for a webcast about what being diagnosed with stage 2…
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Are precision medicine and immunotherapy overhyped as cancer treatments, or do they hold such tremendous promise that we are only…
Occasionally doctors are apt to make claims, especially when money is involved, that are not based in science or fact.…