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Reading lists for health care journalists
In her column for Generations Beat Online, AHCJ member Eileen Beal offers a reading list for health journalists and focuses…
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Reporters use county rankings for analysis
On Feb. 17, rankings of the relative health of counties in each American state were released by the Robert Wood…
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Defaulted doctors: Hundreds fail to pay on loans
More than 300 health care providers who received Health Education Assistance Loans made no payments during 2008, despite having earned…
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New federal caregiver database full of holes
Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein are still working with databases of disciplined caregivers, this time exposing gaping holes in the…
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Food Environment Atlas full of story ideas, data
The Food Environment Atlas, produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, may be one of the best…
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Report measures health factors at county level
A county-by-county collection of reports set to be released tomorrow could be a good source for local data on a…
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Open government directive bears fruit, databases
In December, 2009 Peter Orszag, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, issued an Open Government Directive…
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FDA launches transparency site with help of tongue depressor
In the first step of a planned three-part transparency initiative, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has rolled out FDA…
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Third-party PubMed video tutorials in plain English
PubMed‘s fantastic, but it can also be mighty frustrating. Maintained by the National Library of Medicine, it’s the interface through…
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Scripps finds inequalities in nursing home care
Lee Bowman and Thomas Hargrove of Scripps Howard News Service looked into nursing homes around the country and found the…