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Public health
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Experts stress lifestyle changes as prevention, treatment for diabetes #ahcj13
Diabetes is prevalent in the United States, and the numbers continue to balloon. In a Health Journalism 2013 session focusing…
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Relating global health to your local audience #ahcj13
Multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis and counterfeit or contaminated drugs have been major problems in countries abroad, but we are now hearing…
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Experts say new tools, tougher government oversight can reduce foodborne illnesses #ahcj13
Placing food safety above profits, and using new regulatory power and testing techniques could help protect consumers from foodborne illnesses,…
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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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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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Hospitals to workers: Get flu shot or get fired
In a story that could be replicated in many areas, The Morning Call‘s Tim Darragh writes that hopitals, both locally…
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CDC official details response to meningitis outbreak
John Jernigan, M.D., M.S., the CDC’s clinical team lead on the multistate meningitis outbreak and director of the CDC’s Office…
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Brawley speaks to Atlanta chapter of AHCJ
The Atlanta chapter of AHCJ met on Sept. 25 to hear Otis Brawley, M.D., speak on various health care topics.…
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Battles over water fluoridation spread across the country
As the election returns rolled in, armies of reporters across the country went to work exploring the fate of candidates…