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Health journalism
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Looking back at 2015 on Covering Health
Bacon, chocolate, vaccines and Mark Cuban: Those were the topics of some of the most-read Covering Health posts of 2015.…
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D.C. health journalists gather to celebrate the holiday season
About 45 journalists gathered on Dec. 10 to toast the holidays at the fifth annual Washington, D.C., AHCJ chapter holiday networking…
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Five journalists awarded yearlong fellowships to investigate health systems
The Association of Health Care Journalists has awarded AHCJ Reporting Fellowships on Health Care Performance to five journalists who intend…
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International panel formed as resource for journalists
Six AHCJ members are part of a new international effort to share information about how other countries’ health systems work.…
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Reporter finds mental health evaluations missed in ER that released murder suspect
Reporter Amy Neff Roth (@OD_Roth), of the Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch found an interesting story with the help of hospitalinspections.org. Roth,…
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ProPublica offers rebuttal to Rand critique of Surgeon Scorecard
Not unexpectedly, ProPublica has published a response to the Rand Corporation’s recent 20-page critique of the journalism organization’s Surgeon Scorecard, a searchable database of…
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Workshop will help reporters translate medical research to audiences accurately
Even if you only cover health care occasionally, you run across myriad medical studies and health claims. The results and…
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First class of AHCJ Comparative Effectiveness Research Fellows named
Twelve journalists have been chosen for the inaugural class of the AHCJ Fellowship on Comparative Effectiveness Research. The fellowship program…
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Member’s JAMA piece looks at ethical considerations of physician-journalists
AHCJ member Rita Rubin explores the tricky territory of working as a doctor and a journalist in a “Medical News…
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2015 class of AHCJ-National Library of Medicine fellows chosen
Nine journalists have been named to this year’s class of AHCJ-National Library of Medicine fellows. The fellowship program was created to…