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How one reporter re-purposed her broadcast, online work for a new audience
Joanne Silberner Joanne Silberner did a heavily reported series of radio stories and web posts on cancer in developing countries…
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Reporting on hype, hope around treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
Alan Cassels There seems to be no end of news reports about promising therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.…
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End-of-life discussions: Perspective from a nurse who is a patient
Amy Berman Amy Berman – a nurse, a nationally recognized expert in care of the aged and senior program officer at…
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Reporting at the nexus of health care and crime
Reporter Tonya Alanez covers the crime beat for the Sun Sentinel, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Just the same, there are times when…
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Reporter explains how he turned a troubling hospice death into an investigative series
Charles Piller “An Unquiet Death,” my five-part investigative narrative that appeared in August in The Sacramento Bee, looked into the…
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‘Back-to-school’ a good time to focus on sports-related dental injuries
With millions of school athletes headed back to playing fields across the country, protecting teeth from loss and damage should…
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Aging: The health care story of the 21st century
How did we get here? Scientific discoveries that began in the 1920s, and continue today, gave birth to the longevity revolution, changing the nature of…
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Wealth of ideas for covering rural health issues from AHCJ conference
There’s a lot to unpack from day-long conferences and AHCJ’s Rural Health Journalism Workshop this summer was no exception. About…
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Tips on prying loose records using FOIA requests, lawsuit
Fred Schulte Fred Schulte’s investigation, for the Center of Public Integrity, into problems with Medicare Advantage plans took a lot of digging, filing…
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How to cover efforts in your town to improve oral health around the world
I earlier wrote about a story by Sara Schilling of the Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, Washington, that offered her readers…