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Journal launches site for journalists covering studies
In an editorial in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, “Promoting Healthy Skepticism in the News: Helping Journalists Get…
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Bankruptcy: Health insurance for the desperate
In The New York Times, reporter Kevin Sack visits Nashville, Tenn. to tell stories from the front lines of health…
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Calif. adopts strict rehab rules for medical workers
ProPublica reporters Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein have filed a report (Los Angeles Times version, ProPublica version) on the fallout…
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ECRI reviews prostate cancer research
The ECRI Institute’s new review of recent research on the utility of off-label prescription of Finasteride in the prevention of…
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Lopez finds glamour in LA’s marijuana community
Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez has released his latest dispatch from medical marijuana’s front lines. The Medical License page…
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The latest trend in medicine? Outdoor exercise
Writing for The Washington Post, physician and University of California, San Francisco, medical professor Daphne Miller makes a strong case…
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One town’s end-of-life talks lead to living wills
NPR’s Joseph Shapiro has unearthed an outlier in the nation’s health care cost numbers, one which demonstrates the reality of…
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Tech company aggregates, digitizes H1N1 info
Ebrary, a Silicon Valley outfit that specializes in digitizing and aggregating documents, then making them searchable, has put together a…
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AAMC’s annual workforce report packed with data
The American Association of Medical Colleges has released its annual workforce report for 2009, and it’s full of enough state-by-state…
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Med school prof: Dartmouth Atlas is ‘malarkey’
In a story done in collaboration with The Philadelphia Inquirer, Kaiser Health News’ Jordan Rau’s report on a leading physician’s…