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#ahcj13 speakers featured in news about Boston Marathon bombings
If you attended Health Journalism 2013, you heard from plenty of Boston-based medical professionals, some of whom are in the…
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Las Vegas hospital sends 1,500 patients with mental health issues to other cities
Nevada has been shipping mental health patients out of state as it has cut funding for mental health services, according…
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Causes, consequences of Nashville’s diabetes hot zone
In The Tennessean (and USA Today), Tom Wilemon has assembled a series of reports on what he calls “the diabetes…
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N.C. hospital garnishes patient tax refunds to collect debts
Joseph Neff, reporting for North Carolina’s News & Observer, explains how UNC Health Care is taking advantage of “a little-known…
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Even in treatment guidelines, pharma conflicts abound
As part of the ongoing Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today series “Side Effects” John Fauber and Ellen Gabler “examined…
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KC Star: Centralization of Big Beef also aggregates risk
Mike McGraw’s recent investigation into “big beef” at The Kansas City Star begins with an interesting assumption: Regardless of their…
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LA Times: While board investigates, doctors’ ‘reckless prescribing’ kills
By zeroing in on one particular type of dangerous physician behavior, known as “reckless prescribing,” Los Angeles Times reporters Lisa…
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Pediatric MS on the rise in the northwest, drawing research attention
As part of a collaboration between KOUW and Investigate West, Carol Smith examined the rise of pediatric multiple sclerosis in…
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As Tenn. lags in youth sports concussion laws, reporter shows delay taking a toll
The Tennesean‘s Nate Rau becomes the leader in the clubhouse for 2012’s “most viscerally disquieting use of a verb” award…
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Fla. database intended to stop prescription drug abuse is largely unused
After years of increasing scrutiny as it sat at what appeared to the epicenter of the national prescription painkiller abuse…