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Available data on children falls short
David Crary of the Associated Press writes about weak, outdated and insufficient data in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual…
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Disabled student abuse goes unpunished in Nev.
Darcy Spears, a reporter at KTNV-Las Vegas, has discovered a number of disturbing stories of teachers abusing special needs students…
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Medical defense focuses on anthrax, H1N1
Project BioShield was formed because the United States government felt it needed to support the development of “medical countermeasures” such…
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Former CDC boss now ABC health/medical editor
Richard Besser, M.D., the acting director of the CDC during the first six months of 2009 (CDC bio), will become…
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NIH on Wikipedia: If you can’t beat ’em…
The Washington Post‘s Ibby Caputo reports that the National Institutes of Health, upon realizing that more folks are looking for…
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Reporter finds voices of prescription drug abuse
In an ongoing series, reporter Elaine Grant of New Hampshire Public Radio has worked to inform the public about prescription…
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Senate idea: Tax plastic surgery to pay for reform
Peter Cohn of NationalJournal.com reports that the Senate Finance Committee has discussed, among other things, a 10 percent tax on…
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Government a ‘game changer’ in health IT
In the knowledge management magazine KM World, Nancy Davis Kho evaluates the Obama administration’s push for health information technology, focusing…
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Health care news coverage on the rise
A study from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism looked at how the U.S. news…
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Why Canada’s system does and doesn’t work
Susan Taylor Martin of the St. Petersburg Times explored Canada’s universal health care system, seeking to dispel rumors and misconceptions…