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Dallas Morning News hospital investigation required extensive use of public records
To understand the scope of The Dallas Morning News‘ “First, Do No Harm” series of investigations into publicly funded hospitals,…
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Rather on drug resistance, psychology and Norwegian fish farms
Dan Rather Reports, HDnet’s investigative series, has devoted its latest episode to antibiotic overuse and the resistance it has created.…
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PEJ: 2010 saw less coverage of health care
Every year, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism breaks down news coverage by topic and medium, then…
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Nonprofit hospital CEO earns $5 mil in severance
Writing for The (Bergen County) Record and NorthJersey.com, Lindy Washburn used recent tax filings to discover millions in severance pay…
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Rural health care in Calif. nearing ‘crisis’
In a collaboration between the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting and the San Francisco Chronicle, the center’s David…
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How South Africa rations dialysis
ProPublica’s Sheri Fink, M.D., went to South Africa, where panels in hospitals still decide which patients deserve the scarce dialysis…
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International cooperative to share health data
Writing that “the importance of data sharing in advancing health is becoming increasingly widely recognised,” 17 major public health players…
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Pentagon reluctant to provide therapy for TBI
After a lengthy investigation, ProPublica’s T. Christian Miller and NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling found that, in their words, the “battle over…
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Bagram airfield a leading lab for trauma medicine
NPR’s Quil Lawrence reports that Afghanistan’s Bagram airfield, the primary stop for seriously wounded soldiers before they’re stabilized and transported…
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Some fear DSM update opens door for exploitation
On All Things Considered, NPR’s Alix Spiegel looks to the past and future to ferret out the potential drawbacks and…