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Fla. juvenile justice system relies on heavy antipsychotic use
In looking into the state Department of Juvenile Justice’s use of powerful prescription antipsychotics, The Palm Beach Post‘s Michael LaForgia…
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CBC, grad students cover palliative care and death in Canada
The CBC’s new series on dying has a unique provenance: The stories are the work of 16 graduate students at…
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Veteran journalists speak from front lines of prescription drug epidemic
In a subject area increasingly defined by its steady drumbeat of alarming numbers and increasingly dire statistics, the opening to…
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MJS finds attempts to improve infant mortality rates are fragmented
This year, a team at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel launched “Empty Cradles,” a yearlong reporting effort to find out why…
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Covering Health Issues 6.0, coming soon to a mailbox near you*
*Assuming you’re an AHCJ member. If you aren’t a member, then keep in mind that a free copy of each…
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Interactive models make anatomy accessible
The body imaging folks over at GE Healthymagination have teamed with Healthline networks to put together Healthline BodyMaps, a user-friendly…
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Reporter checks records, hits facility with news of looming closure
After picking up new tools and techniques at Health Journalism 2011, reporter Sarah Bruyn Jones returned to The Roanoke Times…
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Laser spine clinics use Internet search ads to push unproven, costly treatment
Bloomberg’s David Armstrong has put together an investigation of a simple, effective and dubious new business formula, one which begins…
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Herald reports on failures of assisted living system
The Miami Herald‘s yearlong “Neglected to Death” series on abuse and violations in assisted living facilities is expansive, but I…
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ProPublica investigates ties between doc groups, industry
With an assist from Sen. Chuck Grassley, ProPublica senior reporters Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, AHCJ’s board president, have published…