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Oregonian re-injects meaning into reform clichés
The Oregonian‘s Joe Rojas-Burke clearly has a keen eye for that special place at which jargon and cliché intersect, and…
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NewsPro issue on AHCJ, health journalism (#ahcj2010)
NewsPro has once again turned the spotlight toward health journalism and AHCJ, just in time for Health Journalism 2010 in…
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Fink wins Dart award for Memorial story
AHCJ member Sheri Fink’s 13,000-word piece on the difficult choices made at Memorial Hospital in the wake of Hurricane Katrina…
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Schulte, Schwartz look for help investigating HIT
Regular readers know that we always keep an eye out for updates from Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz, the duo…
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Calif. nursing homes cut staff despite public money
CaliforniaWatch’s Christina Jewett and Agustin Armendariz put some serious time into an investigation of the results of a 2004 law…
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Reporter covers patient ‘dumping’ from inside
The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Michael Vitez has been given free reign for several months now to explore and report on Abington…
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Little recent progress on foodborne illnesses
The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report contains some early numbers on foodborne illness rates in 2009. The data, NPR…
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Report: Health care disparities aren’t getting better
In their coverage of AHRQ’s latest annual quality and disparities reports (Quality PDF | Disparities PDF), most outlets focused on…
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Navratilova, GMA uncritically push screening
In February, Martina Navratilova was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ, the most common form of breast cancer. She has…
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Report links Gulf War, illness; calls for more study
The Institute of Medicine has released a report, sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs, on certain health issues in…