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Covering medical studies
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How the new budget package may affect older adults
The massive $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill was signed by President Trump on Friday and is now law. Several provisions…
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Learn the latest on medical cannabis research at #AHCJ18
Ever since the passage of the Controlled Substances Act in 1970, federal policy has held that marijuana has no accepted…
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Major public health journal opens access to gun violence studies
If you’ve had trouble as a reporter getting access to major public health studies on gun violence, get ready to…
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Winners of 2017 health journalism awards announced
Investigations into what’s causing global obesity, who’s blocking regulation of addictive pain pills and who’s raking in billions of dollars…
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NIH to require more transparency for clinical trials
The ongoing push for open science and greater transparency in medical research just notched another win following new rules from…
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Plans coming together for #AHCJ18 in Phoenix
The Valley of the Sun will host Health Journalism 2018, AHCJ’s annual conference marking its 20th anniversary. The conference in…
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Antibiotic resistance highlighted at World Conference of Science Journalists
Alexander Fleming developed penicillin, the first antibiotic, in 1928. In less than a century, scientists have developed more than 130…
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How a debate over patient consent rules led to a book on vaccine history
The story of how cancer cells belonging to Henrietta Lacks were used, without her consent, became one of the most…
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NIH lifts ban on dangerous pathogen research
The National Institutes of Health recently announced it would renew funding research enabling scientists to alter pathogens to make them…
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Full access to the Wiley Online Library added as member benefit
The Association of Health Care Journalists has announced an enhanced partnership with global research and learning company John Wiley and…