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Investigating patient safety at a Dallas institution
Ryan McNeill For two years, a team of reporters at The Dallas Morning News has written stories of breakdowns in…
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AHCJ weighs in on FCC broadcast transparency proposal
AHCJ is supporting a new effort to require broadcasters to report their funding sources online, because that would make it…
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AHCJ opposes taking taxpayer-funded research out of public’s reach
Congress should not roll back public access to taxpayer-funded research reports, AHCJ wrote in a letter to members of Congress.…
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‘Aging’ joins Core Curriculum topics for journalists
CoreTopics: Essential coverage areas for health journalists Aging The Association of Health Care Journalists has rolled out another Core Curriculum…
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Covering long-term care: Programs, data and questions to ask
Long-term care has been in the news with the October 2011 demise of the CLASS Act – the first attempt…
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What do reporters need to know about Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)?
You’d think that advance directives signed by people with serious, life-threatening illnesses would ensure their treatment preferences or end-of-life wishes…
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Tip points reporter to troubled assisted-living facility
Mary Kate Malone The South Bend Tribune recently broke the news that state officials were considering yanking a license from…
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Boomerangst: Series helps explain what the aging of the boomers means
Reporters in Canada have done some pretty spectacular reporting on aging issues. The largest effort, Boomerangst, came from The Province…
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Medicare: The basics, the politics and the resources
Medicare is one of the largest government programs in the United States. Health reporters are bound to hear about it…
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Journalism organizations ask HRSA to clarify how it will exercise restrictions
The Association of Health Care Journalists and five other journalism organizations asked federal health officials this week to specify how…