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With state funds gone, Okla. dental programs still serve needy
Writing for the local NPR StateImpact outlet, Logan Layden looks at how dental programs for the needy are coping in…
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Share your thoughts on database design for tracking pharma payments to doctors
Curtis Brainard of Columbia Journalism Review reminds reporters that their input is needed on the design of a federal database…
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‘Every day is an improvisation’ when caring for aging relatives
How many of us have seen problems with older relatives that we’ve looked away from, not wanting to acknowledge their…
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Reuters shows how shell companies hide Medicare fraud in plain sight
Reporting for Reuters, Brian Grow and Matthew Bigg used an analysis of public data to investigate the practice of using…
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Journalists should learn about study design, evidence-based medicine
Earlier this month I saw on Twitter one of those collisions between journalism and wonkdom. Maybe “collision” isn’t the right…
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‘Doc fix’ flies in the face of rewarding quality, not quantity, of treatment
One of the last things that Congress did before finally getting out of town a few days before Christmas was…
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Lopez columns on ailing dad spark discussions about end-of-life decisions
From his friendship with a cellist to his adventures with medical marijuana, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez often draws…
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Growth of for-profit hospices ripe for coverage
Given the recent spate – some good, some pretty muddy, and one I think pretty eye-opening – of articles about the…
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Project looks at problems in how deaths are investigated
The results of a yearlong joint investigation of the American autopsy system by ProPublica, Frontline and NPR show that problems…
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Tsouderos looks at federal funding of alternative medicine
In her latest series, Chicago Tribune reporter Trine Tsouderos, whose award-winning reporting has brought her hard-nosed approach to investigating less-proven…