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What stories can you cover for National Children’s Dental Health Month?
Mary Otto It started small, as a single day in Cleveland. Feb. 3, 1941, was dedicated to spotlighting the dental…
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What do we know about the bacteria inhabiting our mouth?
Science recently revealed a fascinating new fact about romantic intimacy: a couple exchanges 80 million bacteria during the average French kiss.…
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Discount drug pricing: Cutting through the controversy
Lola Butcher Debate about the government’s 340B Drug Pricing Program continues to build as the program expands. Like all good controversies, this…
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Reporting on why a huge nonprofit with a healthy endowment would sue an uninsured patient
Dianna Wray Houston journalist Dianna Wray found that one of the largest nonprofit hospitals in Texas was not functioning as…
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Reporting on how, why hospital superusers account for bulk of health-care spending
Tim Darragh Tim Darragh, when he was with The Morning Call, of Allentown, Pa., reported and wrote a four-day series of…
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Tips for covering efforts to establish licensing for dental therapists
Rosalie Rayburn A bill in New Mexico would establish a licensing and practicing framework for midlevel oral health providers in…
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How a secretive committee recommends how much physicians should be paid
Journalists Dan Keating and Peter Whoriskey of The Washington Post explain how a secretive committee of doctors makes decisions about…
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Figuring out the politics of patient harm
Michael L. Millenson Patient safety is a critically important topic for health care journalists. Yet collecting the data needed to…
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Covering the soda tax in Berkeley and San Francisco
Tom Lochner In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 4 elections, Tom Lochner covered the debate over soda tax…
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A personal journey with Alzheimer’s
Pieter Droppert Putting personal issues on public view can be tricky and even downright awkward for journalists. It is often…