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How leveraging a study’s raw data can help kick up your coverage a notch
Markian Hawryluk Each week my email inbox is swamped with press releases about hundreds of new medical studies. The ones…
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Are your local schools trying to fight tooth decay with a mouth rinse program?
An Appalachia Health News story by Kara Leigh Lofton highlighted West Virginia’s push to encourage more schools to promote a simple oral…
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State budget cuts had adverse effects on patient care, leading to hospital’s decertification
Last December, Megan Hart was reading the local newspaper before heading to her first day of work at KHI News…
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Some advice when interviewing victims of mental or other trauma
Susan Heavey Mental trauma, like many health subjects, can require a special sensitivity to report about, especially when dealing with…
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Covering how health care organizations are using ‘cloud computing’
In an age when health care organizations are managing massive amounts of (often sensitive) data, cloud computing can help with…
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Covering gaps in dental care for low-income children
Maggie Clark’s Two Million Kids series for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune has explored many facets of the state’s troubled Medicaid program: the dearth…
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First class of journalists named for National Cancer Reporting Fellowships
Fourteen journalists have been chosen for the inaugural class of the National Cancer Reporting Fellowships. The fellowship program was created…
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Unsafe anesthesia use in dental procedures for children continues to be an issue
Brooks Egerton In the wake of the Dallas Morning News’ seven-part Deadly Dentistry series, Texas media outlets are now following…
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Reporting all the angles on organ transplants and improving their odds
David Wahlberg After two insurance companies stopped referring patients to the University of Wisconsin Hospital’s kidney transplant program several years…
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How one reporter helped launch his paper’s new aging section
Gary Rotstein Most reporters are multitasking experts. Not only are they reporting and writing the main story for a media…