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From pee-wees to pros: Head injuries in sports (Margot Putukian presentation)
The team physician and director of athletic medicine at Princeton University offers information about concussions in young athletes.
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From pee-wees to pros: Head injuries in sports (handouts)
These are handouts that were available at the panel "From pee-wees to pros: Head injuries in sports" at Health Journalism…
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Covering Health Care: Six Easy Pieces
Frank Bass, a reporter/analyst at Bloomberg, offers a set of data-related websites to help report on health care in this…
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Study of adolescents’ daily activities and the risk to be assaulted (Douglas Wiebe presentation)
Douglas Wiebe presents research about the activities of 15-19 year-old subjects, finding that in most instances, four types of locations…
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States give troubled caregivers a pass (Tracy Weber presentation)
ProPublica's Tracy Weber presented information from the long-running investigation she and Charles Ornstein have conducted into nurses and other caregivers…
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How well does your state oversee nurses (and pharmacists, dentists, psychologists…)?
Nursing boards – and agencies that oversee such professionals as pharmacists, dentists and psychologists – do not get nearly enough…
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Affordable Care Act: What is ‘premium support?’
“Premium support” is one of those quintessential Washington phrases. What on earth does it mean? It’s in the news now…
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Neighborhood indicators for infant and child health (Dan Taylor presentation)
Dan Taylor of St. Christopher's Hospital for Children presented studies and data on the effects of stress on young brains,…
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One big-ass(arse) database (Maurice Tamman presentation)
Maurice Tamman, of The Wall Street Journal, shares information from that paper's "Secrets of the System" series and the closed federal…
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Health Journalism 2011: From pee wee to pro: Head injuries in sports
Matt Grady, M.D., a pediatric sports medicine specialist at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, Jack Jallo, M.D., Ph.D., director of the…