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Journal spotlights science journalism
The latest issue of Nature explores the present and future of the relationship between media and science. Coverage includes balanced…
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Report, feature focus on state health stats
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has assembled data from the 2008 National…
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Philly VA doc defends himself before Congress
The New York Times‘ Walt Bogdanich has followed up his investigation into a “rogue” cancer unit at a Philadelphia VA…
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Stimulus boosts health care for poor Americans
The Associated Press’s Kristen Wyatt looks at one category of stimulus spending that’s already making an impact: funding for clinics…
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Obama to answer videos, tweets on Wednesday
At 1:15 ET on Wednesday, President Barack Obama will answer questions about health care reform at a live, online town-hall…
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AMA wants lower med school costs, student debt
In the American Medical Association’s American Medical News, Amy Lynn Sorrel reports on resolutions from the AMA’s annual meeting calling…
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AHCJ speaker writes about physiology of eating
The New York Times‘s Tara Parker-Pope reviewed former FDA chief Dr. David Kessler’s new book, The End of Overeating: Taking…
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Plain Dealer adds ‘price compare’ feature
Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Sarah Jane Tribble recently announced a new feature for the paper’s health and fitness blog. Every…
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STATS: Media ignored science in BPA coverage
In a review of American media coverage of the controversy of bisphenol A, researchers at STATS (a nonprofit, nonpartisan Statistical…
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Sunshine Week may drop employee, fundraising
Clint Hendler reports in the Columbia Journalism Review that Sunshine Week’s only full-time coordinator will likely lose her job soon.…