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Report reveals the challenges behind covering patient safety
Patient safety is a critically important topic for health care journalists. Yet collecting the data needed to report on it…
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Lessons learned in covering passage of a soda tax
In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 4 elections, Tom Lochner covered the debate over soda tax questions on…
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Going international for dental care: Questions patients should ask
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are traveling abroad each year for health care services. Many factors are helping to drive…
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Emanuel: Stories of longevity may be missing important points
It’s not that Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., necessarily wants to die right after he blows out 75 candles on his…
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Grant will allow comprehensive tracking of journal retractions
A $400,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation will be used to create a database of retractions from scientific journals, extending…
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Investigating elder guardianship in Florida
Institutionalized without justification. Stripped of all rights and dignity. No, it’s not some tale out of Guantanamo. It’s happening in…
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Powerful Alzheimer’s narrative nets radio documentary award
When done well, there may be no better medium for storytelling than radio. When vivid narrative is paired powerful audio,…
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State waivers and the next Supreme Court ACA challenge
A recent Health Affairs blog post by Heather Howard (a familiar name to AHCJ members who have attended the panels…
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Second open-enrollment period discussed at Atlanta chapter event
The Atlanta chapter of AHCJ and the Alliance for Health Policy sponsored a Dec. 2 event focused on the second…
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Pucker up: Research into kissing may help with future bacterial therapies
Dutch researchers have concluded that during a 10-second French kiss, partners exchange an average of 80 million bacteria. Their study,…