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D.C.-area journalists get tips on upcoming ACA stories
Open enrollment is coming again. And with millions of new people signing up for health insurance and renewing their plans…
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When patients get lab test results, journalists may need these resources
Next month, all clinical laboratories must make patients’ laboratory test results available to patients who request them. Under rules three…
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How a secretive panel uses data that distorts doctors’ pay
One factor that makes health care costs difficult to manage is the system the federal government and health insurers use…
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About 115,000 could lose insurance coverage based on residency issues
We wrote earlier this month about the Sept. 5 deadline for people who had signed up for ACA coverage through…
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U.S. children lacking in dental care, other preventive treatments
A newly published federal study finds that millions of American young people have been missing out on key preventive health…
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Reports call for changes in approaching dementia risk, end-of-life care
Addressing the global epidemic of dementia and improving end-of-life planning and care in the United States are the subjects of…
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Senators push for research into prostate cancer
Two U.S. senators have proposed a bill to support research into prostate cancer, calling for “a national strategy to combat…
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No shift to part-time work seen (yet) under ACA
Remember all those stories about people being shifted into part-time work so their employers don’t have to provide health insurance?…
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Dental complaints in California pile up unseen
Reporter Rachel Cook’s “Dental Dangers” series, published this summer in The Bakersfield Californian, explores a long history of complaints and lawsuits…
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Potassium intake linked to stroke risk in older women
Postmenopausal women who eat foods higher in potassium are less likely to have strokes and die than women who eat…