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Congress’ internet privacy pullback has implications for health journalists, consumers
The U.S. House of Representatives on March 28 voted 215-205 to eliminate Obama-era consumer protections that bar internet service providers…
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Reporter turned on-deadline account of a dental death into more than a tragic story
Sacramento Bee health reporter Sammy Caiola worked quickly to give her readers the story about the death of a young…
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Albany reporter fills in the holes that state report left out
How often has this happened to you? Over the transom comes a report you believe will be the basis for…
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Despite ‘repeal and replace’ vow, Republicans pull health care bill before vote
Obamacare is the law of the land. … We’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.” –…
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Health care repeal bill would have dealt death blow to ‘essential health benefits’
A variety of fixes aimed at appeasing resistant conservative House members failed to save the GOP’s Affordable Care Act repeal…
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Policy experts predicted AHCA’s potential impact on older adults
From higher age-based premiums to cuts in Medicaid funding for dual eligibles, there was much for aging advocates to criticize…
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Some help with the challenges of tracking down lead data
Lead contamination continues to make headlines more than a year after the Flint municipal lead crisis in Michigan hit the…
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Study: Newspaper coverage rarely reflects medical evidence over time
Journalists are in love with reporting new findings about a disease and a particular risk factor, but they are not…
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What Trump’s budget proposal may mean for health research agency
President Donald Trump’s budget proposal includes rolling a relatively obscure agency that conducts health care research into the National Institutes…
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Proposed cuts to senior program funding spark outrage
By now, most of you are probably aware of the controversial remarks made by Mick Mulvaney, director of the White…