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How to cover nursing homes with more depth and data #ahcj13
It was worth the wait to attend one of the last sessions on the last day of Health Journalism 2013.…
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Funding a critical issue in strengthening oral health #ahcj13
Often overlooked in overall health is the importance of oral health. But 100 million Americans lack dental benefits, and in…
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Hospitals struggle to find ways to reduce avoidable readmissions #ahcj13
About one in five Medicare patients hospitalized for heart attacks, heart failure or pneumonia will be back in the hospital…
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Journalists should expect a rocky implementation of exchanges #ahcj13
With less than 10 months until uninsured consumers can buy health coverage via online marketplaces known as exchanges, journalists should…
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Writing about the end of life: May not be fun, but it is important #ahcj13
It’s one of the certainties of life: everyone’s going to die. And most of us also will deal with the…
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Plenty of pitfalls in reporting on medical studies #ahcj13
Seventy percent of news articles on medical studies fail to discuss costs of the treatment studies, quantify potential harms and benefits, and…
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All in the family: When medical experts disagree #ahcj13
Oncologist Jerome Groopman and endocrinologist Pamela Hartzband both attended Ivy League medical schools. He went to Columbia. She went to…
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Writing about co-ops: A taste of the complexity
I wrote about co-ops as an undercovered Health Policy topic last month and provided some resources about how to cover…
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Premium shock: The story isn’t as simple as it seems
You’ve seen lots of stories – and you may well have written some – about how much the cost of…
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Shifting projections mean U.S. population is aging faster
New Census Bureau numbers forecast that there will be more older people in the United States than previously anticipated. As…