Category
Featured Patient Safety
-
How a class reporting project exposed ethical problems with a pioneering brain study
Journalist Katherine Eban describes her and her students’ STAT investigation about Mount Sinai’s Living Brain Project.
-
In the U.S., wait times to see a doctor can be agonizingly long
Opponents of universal health care often predict it would lead to long waits to see a doctor, but that’s already…
-
Infants dying, women at risk: Medical literature describes wide-ranging consequences of Dobbs
Scientific studies have begun to show the effects of state abortion restrictions on patients since the Supreme Court overturned Roe…
-
How I did it: Spotlighting the brutal side effects of cancer treatment
Veteran freelance journalist Charlotte Huff explored the tolerability of cancer drugs in a recent article.
-
Hospital star ratings are about to be released. Here’s what journalists should know
CMS is about to release its star ratings for hospitals. Journalists should know about the limitations of these much-watched scores.
-
FDA to regulate lab-developed tests, citing safety issues raised by journalists
News articles about lab-developed tests contributed to the FDA’s “growing body of evidence” that inaccurate tests threaten public health.
-
KFF reporter offers tips for mining hospital inspection reports
HJ24 panelists covered how to read, analyze and find stories in reports generated by inspections performed in response to a…
-
AP team reveals harms of forced sedation during police encounters
Reporters found that, over a decade, at least 94 people died after police used forced sedation to restrain them.
-
Despite transparency, doctors accept billions from drug and device industry
This finding is a reminder for journalists to inquire whether clinician sources have financial disclosures that might bias their views.
-
Tips for navigating the confusing world of maternal mortality surveillance
The U.S. has three different reporting systems to track maternal mortality — and their results frequently don’t agree.