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Americans unprepared to pay for long-term care
In the Chicago Tribune, Deborah Shelton examines how unprepared Americans are to pay for their own long-term care needs as…
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Reporter recounts fellowship visit to CDC
This is a guest post from Winnie Yu, a freelance journalist based in Voorheesville, N.Y. She was among this year’s…
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Long-term care insurance premiums jump
As the population ages and costs continue rising, paying for long-term care is a big issue for middle class families.…
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New outlet to cover food, environment outlet opens with story on N.M. dairy regulation
Under Editor-in-Chief Sam Fromartz, The Food and Environmental Reporting Network has published its first story, a look at pollution and…
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AHCJ asks Supreme Court to permit broadcast of Health Policy arguments
AHCJ has asked Chief Justice John G. Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court to permit live audio and video coverage…
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Numbers reveal how often, or how rarely, states check doctors’ disciplinary records
How often does your state medical board search doctors in the National Practitioner Data Bank? Surprisingly not often, according to…
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‘Dual eligibles’ pingpong between programs, getting stuck along the way
The phrase “dual eligibles” has always been a mouthful for describing people old enough (or disabled enough) to be on…
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Feds indict doc whose abuses were detailed in 2010 WSJ series
In The Wall Street Journal, John Carreyrou reports that a physician the paper spotlighted in a data-driven series on Medicare…
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Agency’s restrictions on data about disciplined doctors continue to get attention
The Kansas City Star and The Sacramento Bee ran editorials over the weekend to denounce the recent decision by the…
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Journalists discuss reporting from the heart of a pandemic
Recently, New York Times health and science reporter Donald McNeil joined the National Journal‘s Maggie Fox, the Nieman Foundation’s Stefanie…