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Reporting project fellowships available
Interested in pursuing a project on patient safety and quality care? Efforts to address racial disparities in infant mortality? The…
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New AHCJ board seated for 2012-13
Scott Hensley, NPR’s Shots blog writer and editor, joins five incumbents in being seated on the Association of Health Care…
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Tracking antipsychotic use in nursing homes
Kay Lazar Research published in 2010 found that patients newly admitted to nursing homes with some of the highest rates…
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Latest innovations in Medicare
Don’t look only to Washington policymakers for strategies to control medical costs and improve care for our aging population. New…
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AHCJ protests FDA surveillance of communication between reporters, scientists
Following a New York Times report that revealed the federal government secretly tracked communication sent by FDA scientists to “members…
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Reporter explores difficult end-of-life questions through father’s death
Lisa Krieger It took months for Lisa Krieger to decide to write about her father’s death and minutes for readers…
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Health care blessing or blueprint for a scandal?
Frederik Joelving The risks and benefits – both physical and fiscal – of cancer screening have become a burning topic,…
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N.C. hospitals make big money while suing vulnerable patients for rising costs of care
In 2009, as the debate about health care reform picked up steam in Washington, D.C., an editor at The News…
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President’s Corner: Renewing our reporting focus on the health aspects of Health Policy
This column, by AHCJ President Charles Ornstein, originally appeared in the Summer 2012 issue of HeatlhBeat. After months of suspense,…
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How Britain’s new health law got through Parliament
Most health care professionals vociferously opposed Britain’s new Health and Social Care Act in the final few months as the…