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Health journalism
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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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School lunches, obesity and causality
Miller-McCune magazine’s Washington correspondent Emily Badger explains how a study found that the National School Lunch program is linked to…
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How HHS can improve data infrastructure
Better data means better public health. That’s the message put forth in a new commentary piece in the Journal of…
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New guide focuses on covering medical studies
Reporters are inundated with lures to cover the latest medical study or scientific conference paper. And there are some significant…
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Welcome to these new AHCJ members
These journalists have joined AHCJ recently: Lesley Bennett, independent journalist; Stamford, Conn. Tim Casey, associate managing editor, First Report Managed…
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Scienceblogs, and when bloggers attack
The Next Web’s Simon Owens tries to put the recent ScienceBlogs / PepsiCo quagmire into the larger context of the…
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Myths obscure lack of health care for some Asians
A focus on “ethnic disparities” can obscure the fact that racial designations are so broad that the disparities within them…
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Is California’s prison health system really fixed?
After years of failing to prevent preventable inmate deaths, the California Department of Corrections health system was placed under a…
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Conflicts of interest + off-label use = Blockbuster
Medtronic is back at the FDA, asking for approval of another spine fusion product. Not coincidentally, the Journal Sentinel‘s John…
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Hospitalist: What health journalists should know
R. W. Donnell, an Arkansas hospitalist with a long-running blog and a few burrs in his saddle, has outlined what…