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Health journalism
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Las Vegas Sun’s Allen a finalist for Goldsmith Prize
AHCJ member Marshall Allen, with Alex Richards, is a finalist for the 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their…
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Carlat reviews Dollars for Docs, and the bleak picture it paints
Writing on KevinMD.com, psychiatrist and blogger Daniel Carlat reviews ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs database from the perspective of a medical…
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The health highlights of two years of Guardian data
In two years, the Guardian’s data blog has published more than 600 data sets. I know this because, thanks to…
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Australian journal says no to pharma ads
Emergency Medicine Australasia, an Australia-based medical journal, has declared that it will no longer accept paid advertisements from pharmaceutical companies.…
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Rennie urges changes in science journalism
In the Guardian, former Scientific American editor in chief John Rennie adds his two cents to the meta discussion of…
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NIH, CMS chiefs to speak at Newsmaker Briefings
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health, and Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., administrator for…
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Research: Local television encourages fatalistic view of cancer
Writing for Miller-McCune magazine, Tom Jacobs puts together the results of two studies that conclude local television teaches viewers over-the-top…
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Picard honored for public policy journalism
André Picard, AHCJ member and longtime Globe and Mail health reporter, has earned this year’s Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence…
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WSJ sues for release of Medicare provider data
If successful, a legal move by The Wall Street Journal could open a flood of now-confidential Medicare data about providers…
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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust awards $1.1 million grant to support health journalists
The Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, the educational arm of the Association of Health Care Journalists, has been…