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Coming Soon: Slowing Human Aging
Once only a prospect of science fiction, modern medical advances are closer than ever to determining ways to slow human…
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Suffering in Silence
When considering domestic violence, most individuals would not immediately conjur images of aging persons who have suffered physical or psychological…
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Confronting the Challenges of Elder Abuse
This presentation provided a statistical and historic overview of the scope of the nation’s elder abuse, neglect and exploitation problem;…
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Reporting Health Stories from any Beat
These presentations are from the California Chicano News Media Association's Job Opportunities Conference, Oct. 15 & 16, in Los Angeles.…
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Digging Into Hospital Finances: Recent trends and five key documents
Karl Stark of The Philadelphia Inquirer has written an extensive tip sheet on covering hospital finances – an especially daunting…
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Applications sought for second annual AHCJ-CDC Fellowships
AHCJ and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have agreed to a second annual national fellowship program for journalists.…
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Reporter discovers data missing from federal Nursing Home Compare
Duane Schrag of the Salina (Kan.) Journal recently discovered critical data was missing from the federal Nursing Home Compare data…
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How well does your state oversee nurses?
Photo by fyunkie via FlickrCharles Ornstein and Tracy Weber of ProPublica reported a series of stories about breakdowns in California's…
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Reporting on sports injuries in school-age children
As kids start heading back to school, the annual rituals of football two-a-days and cheerleading practice are also getting under…
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Mining NLM databases: PubMed, Medline and more
Speakers came to Health Journalism 2009's "Mining Pub Med Central and MedlinePlus" panel armed with information to help journalists better…