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Public health
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How a journalist overcame challenges of covering antibiotic resistance
Since the dawn of antibiotics, there has been antibiotic resistance. Until about 20 years ago, this threat remained muted because…
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Covering climate change and public health from the local level
One angle journalists can take to tackle huge issue like climate change and public health is to take a focused…
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Covering gun violence as a public health problem requires nuance
As journalists, we focus on the increasingly common phenomenon of mass shootings. They are appalling, they are terrifying and we…
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Zika still a threat in Puerto Rico, but government stopped tracking it
The government of Puerto Rico has reported no cases of people with the Zika virus since early 2017, which might…
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Public health experts suggest story ideas about rising STD rates
The number of recorded cases of sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. is at historic levels as a result of…
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Last year’s flu season death toll and 2018-19 flu coverage
In last year’s flu season, 80,000 people died, including 180 children, and 900,000 people were hospitalized, making it the worst…
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Study looks at media coverage of water fluoridation efforts
Last fall, oral health advocates joined a successful push to save a city water fluoridation ordinance in Rugby, N.D. Meanwhile,…
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Free online courses from CDC, WHO and NIH can enhance medical research reporting
In a previous post, I discussed how journalists can use MOOCs — Massive Online Open Courses — to broaden or…
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Like public health officials, reporters should ready BEFORE the next pandemic arrives
It can seem next to impossible to prepare for a threat you know will come without knowing what it will…
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Opioids the topic of daylong training for D.C. journalists
Health journalists in Washington, D.C., participated in an all-day training session about reporting on the opioid crisis, hearing from treatment…