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Health equity
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FCC will vote next month on a $100 million telehealth initiative
The Federal Communications Commission will vote on July 10 to advance a $100 million telehealth initiative to boost funding for…
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HIDI highlights inherent challenges when reporting on vulnerable adults
People do what they must to survive, says the subject of a story by Lisa Gillespie, health reporter at NPR…
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Recent older immigrants at higher risk of heart disease
An increasing number of uninsured, older immigrants are going to emergency rooms with strokes, heart attacks and other serious but…
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Caution and ideas for covering HIV/AIDS in 2019
In April 1984, then-U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announced the National Cancer Institute had discovered the virus…
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Lack of routine dental care under Medicare continues to rankle
About 60 million Americans depend upon Medicare for their health care coverage. But the national health insurance program for retired…
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Profile of a Kennedy led reporter to an investigation of mental health parity in N.C.
In September, Yen Duong, Ph.D., had just started work for North Carolina Health News when Hurricane Florence was churning up…
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Covering climate change and public health from the local level
One angle journalists can take to tackle huge issue like climate change and public health is to take a focused…
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Health Journalism 2019 sets attendance record
Drawn by an influential lineup of speakers and panels – plus an intriguing offering of field trips – more than…
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Reporter drew on life experience to report on inadequate prison dental care
Much remains unknown about the oral health status of more than two million incarcerated Americans, but research suggests that many dental needs…
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This is the brain on health disparities: Their role in dementia
In a recent commentary in JAMA Neurology, Elisa de Paula França Resende, M.D., of the University of California, San Francisco,…