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Fellow looks at how Medicaid work requirements have been implemented in Arkansas
Benjamin Hardy, a reporter with the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network and a 2018 AHCJ Health Care Performance Reporting Fellow, has just…
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Journalists can learn from these ‘9.5 Theses for a Reformation of Evidence-Based Medicine’
At the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting last fall, I attended a talk by Kevin Powell, M.D., Ph.D., called…
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What does the partial government shutdown mean for older adults?
The federal government has been in partial shutdown mode since Dec. 21 – meaning it’s been nearly a full month…
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As name implies, short-term health plans may not be a good deal for some consumers
For an article on short-term health plans, journalist Nancy Metcalf found an ideal source: Stewart Lamotte, a 64-year-old retired restaurateur…
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Plan ahead to get answers at a medical conference
One challenge when covering medical conferences is that, depending on your publication’s needs, you often must conduct many interviews on…
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Media played helpful role in communicating risks during Zika outbreak
The news media, for the most part, played a helpful role in communicating the known health risks of the Zika…
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Persistence, persuasion pays off with critical global health security story
Ongoing trade tensions between the U.S. and China are having an impact on the global economy and potentially U.S. biosecurity.…
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How are ACA’s quality measures affecting health care?
On a recent What the Health podcast, where I’m a frequent guest, we took some listeners’ questions. One was about…
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Don’t neglect the human stories — and human pain — behind clinical trials
Most often, reporting on medical studies means recounting numbers, demographic details, findings and statistical probability values that are so abstract…
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Aftermath of child’s death continues to highlight risks of pediatric dental anesthesia
A state jury found a former Hawaii dentist not guilty of manslaughter and other criminal charges related to the highly…