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Some dental clinics seeing influx of Medicaid clients under ACA
Thanks to Medicaid expansion and stepped up enrollment efforts under the Affordable Care Act, adults in some states including Oregon,…
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Love, marriage and millennials – one more look at fertility
Recent data on the economic recession’s impact on U.S. birth rate showed a slowdown among millennials struggling to regain their…
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Journal’s retraction highlights value of keeping ‘a biostatistician in your back pocket’
A now-retracted study in the journal Science once again reveals how important it is that journalists find appropriate expert sources…
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Proposal would change how hospitals bill for services after acquiring physician groups
When health policy experts talk about ways to improve how Medicare and commercial health plans pay for care, they often…
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Critically assessing nutritional arguments based on evidence: One journalist’s case study
Few areas of medical research are as challenging to study as nutrition. Randomized controlled nutrition trials are very difficult to…
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Return to McAllen illustrates changes ACA has brought to health care system
In June 2009, Atul Gawande wrote an influential New Yorker article, about the community of McAllen, Texas, which has some…
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Eight-part series on hepatitis C finds unique moment in an epidemic
While working on a documentary about opioid addiction, Kristin Espeland Gourlay, the health care reporter for Rhode Island Public Radio, discovered…
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Journalists expose weaknesses in Idaho’s fragmented, threadbare mental health system
Last fall, The Idaho Statesman newspaper and NPR member station Boise State Public Radio ran a series titled, “In Crisis,”…
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Babies or bust? What new data on millennial birth rates means for the future
It’s no secret that raising children is an expensive proposition. But for millennials, who entered adulthood during the worst economic…
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More aging boomers at risk of becoming elder orphans
Are you familiar with the term “elder orphan?” That’s how one researcher describes a coming wave of childless and unmarried…
