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Cover the science behind screenings, preventive health recommendations
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force often finds itself in the news when determining what works and doesn’t work in screenings and…
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Covering news about screenings, preventive health recommendations
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force just released a recommendation that pregnant women be screened for gestational diabetes, even if they have not been previously…
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Cost reports show financial health of hospitals, amount of charity care they provide
Oklahoma Watch, a nonprofit investigative journalism team, recently published a two-part series on hospitals based on financial data obtained for every…
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New reports out on health care costs, transparency and new insurance strategies
Three reports – all on various aspects of health care costs – caught my eye today: The State of the Art of…
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Webcast will cover implications of federal spending deal on Medicare
Medicare reform is a hot topic on the agenda for the bipartisan congressional budget committee whose Dec. 13 deadline for…
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Levey: Reporters can change health care debate by telling communities’ stories
Journalists can do better educating the public about Health Policy and our system of health care, according to Noam Levey,…
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HHS releases enrollment numbers for marketplaces
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released the much-anticipated numbers for the first month of enrollment in…
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Get support to pursue major health reporting project
Health journalists have a rare chance to get support for work on an in-depth reporting project related to the U.S.…
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Attorney argues confidentiality provision in SNAP case was misinterpreted
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals held hearings yesterday on a 2011 lawsuit brought by the Argus Leader of Sioux…
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Shared wisdom: Finding sources while avoiding politics
It’s advice we see repeated over and over: Get the faces and stories of real people into your articles about…