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With Roe likely in its final days, experts say reporters should sharpen focus on abortion as a health issue
Pregnancy is a medical condition and abortion is an intervention for it, so journalists writing about the topic should take…
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Pain, profit and accountability in Medicaid managed care
A powerhouse series on patient harm under Texas’s Medicaid Managed Care program won the Shorenstein Center’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative…
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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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Surgeons’ complication rates become public with new database
Whether consumers are choosing a car, a household appliance or even a nursing home, there are ratings and reviews available…
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Covering the wild west of microbiome research #ahcj15
Since stool transplants have turned out to be useful in fighting deadly hospital-borne C. difficile infections, new claims about the…
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Pew releases survey on interaction between scientists, public
On Sunday, the Pew Research Center released the results of a survey on the interaction between scientists, the media and…
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AHCJ award-winner’s work foretold N.Y. moratorium on certain supplements
AHCJ members likely weren’t too surprised on Feb. 3, when the New York Office of the Attorney General ordered four major…
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President’s Corner: Ebola a great reminder that good information can counter hysteria
From the Winter 2015 issue of HealthBeat. Ebola coverage has fallen to a trickle, but the disease is still killing…
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Contest entries provide insights, education into reporting
One of the most inspiring parts of my job comes every spring: That’s when I get to see the winning entries…
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In sad, compelling stories, journalists are documenting a mental health care system in crisis
Imagine the outcry if patients with cancer or any other chronic condition lacked standard, appropriate care. Such ill treatment would…
