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Health journalism
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Disciplined doc gets top rank in Google
In SF Weekly, Ashley Harrell investigated the disconnect between a local plastic surgeon’s record of “gross negligence” which left one…
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Gorman takes job with Scientific American
AHCJ member Christine Gorman (@cgorman) has been announced as a new editor at Scientific American, where she’ll work primarily on…
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Reporters urged to insist on response from federal agencies
When the FDA would offer only “no comment” on a notorious incident last summer, Felice J. Freyer, a medical writer…
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Hirsh files from ‘health journalist heaven’
For the past few days, Consumer Reports‘ Jamie Hirsh has been filing dispatches from what she calls “health journalist heaven,”…
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Aussie researchers find value in health reporters
In Croakey, Melissa Sweet explains a new study about coverage of avian flu by Australian media and how it demonstrates…
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Data: Calif. for-profits order more C-sections
Writing for California Watch, Nathanael Johnson leads with the numbers on his story about for-profit hospitals and C-sections. Appropriately for…
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How ghostwriters sold hormone replacement
Writing in PLoS Medicine, Adriane J. Fugh-Berman, M.D., demonstrates the cynical art of “publication planning” and the use of academic…
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AP’s Marchione wins Victor Cohn Prize
AHCJ member Marilynn Marchione, a senior medical writer at The Associated Press, is the recipient of the 2010 Victor Cohn…
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Erdely wins for story of bone marrow donation
AHCJ member Sabrina Rubin Erdely won a 2010 Clarion Award [press release] from the Association for Women in Communications for…
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Erdely wins for story of bone marrow donation
AHCJ member Sabrina Rubin Erdely won a 2010 Clarion Award [press release] from the Association for Women in Communications for…