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NLM workshop in Ohio tests waters for possible chapter
This post was contributed by AHCJ member Eileen Beal. On Oct. 9, health care journalists, a couple of journalism professors,…
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ProPublica investigates pharma payments to doctors
ProPublica’s massive investigation into the hefty fees pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors with dubious track records stamps an exclamation point…
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More patients aren’t filling brand-name prescriptions
It hasn’t had quite as much impact as some earlier health-related recession trend stories, but the rise in prescription abandonment…
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Schwitzer on the future of health journalism
When HealthNewsReview.org publisher Gary Schwitzer writes on the future of health journalism, his words carry the weight of a database…
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Rural health on the frontier
A defining feature of reporter David Wahlberg’s ongoing look at rural health care for the Wisconsin State Journal has been…
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Canadians fight for disclosure of medical treatment
It took eight years, a whistleblower and intervention from a state commissioner to uncover a fatal medical error in a…
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Understanding the administrative side of implementation
Coverage of health care reform implementation has generally focused on the issues and effects of the roll-out, rather than the…
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Trade group says conflicts negate GPOs’ leverage
A recent GAO report looked at group purchasing organizations and established that they were pervasive, and that they’d adopted some…
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Innovative approaches to malpractice, errors
American Medical News reporter Kevin O’Reilly writes about a presentation by David Mayer, M.D., University of Illinois at Chicago Institute…
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Stories focus on suicides of doctors, soldiers
New York Times columnist Pauline Chen, M.D., serves up a reminder that suicide prevention isn’t just a matter of access…