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CMS adds rating system to nursing home data
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is expected to launch a “5 Star Quality Rating System” addition to its…
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Quaid reaches settlement with hospital over errors
If you attended Health Journalism 2008 in March, you likely heard actor Dennis Quaid give an emotional talk about the…
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Catch up with AHCJ members; get book discount
The third edition of “Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z,” by NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner, has…
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AHCJers write ‘blogs that will open your eyes’
USPharmD+ announced a list of “100 Global Health Blogs That Will Open Your Eyes” and it includes blogs written by…
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Obama releases documents from advocacy groups
Jennifer LaFleur at ProPublica points out that “President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team seems to be following through with its promise…
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Calls for FDA reform are building
Former FDA staffers and consumer advocacy groups are pointing to reforming the FDA as something the Obama administration should make…
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Deadline approaches to enter your top work
Recently, AHCJ’s principles were cited as a positive way to avoid conflicts of interest for health reporting in a paper…
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Last-minute rules would affect health care
ProPublica, which is tracking last-minute rulemaking by the Bush Administration, reports on one rule that would make it more difficult…
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Health policy news is just 1 percent of all news
A study from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism found that news…
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Study: Health journalists face ‘entanglements’
A paper just published in BMJ discusses financial ties between medical journalists and the companies they cover. The authors look…