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Little-known loophole in health insurance plans leaves some without coverage
At first, a story by Roni Caryn Rabin for The New York Times seemed like another article about a shooting gone wrong. But reading…
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Local stories add color to data-driven reporting on hospital financial performance
Not-for-profit hospitals are required give back to their communities to justify their tax exempt status. Those efforts usually take the…
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Covering the special health issues that LGBT seniors face
A growing subset of the senior tidal wave known as the “gray tsunami” are those who identify as gay, lesbian,…
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HHS agrees to recognize AHCJ membership as credential for press events
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will recognize membership in the Association of Health Care Journalists as sufficient credential for…
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Reporter explains how he wove data, human stories into compelling series on dental deaths
In early 2014, a 4-year-old Dallas boy named Salomon Barahona Jr. died after undergoing sedation for a dental procedure. The…
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How the year-end budget deal affects the Affordable Care Act
If you are wondering if the year-end spending and tax bills approved by Congress undid some of the funding for…
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Health writer tells how she got the story on experimental dental treatment
Andrea McDaniels Baltimore Sun reporter Andrea McDaniels was surprised to learn about an off-label treatment for tooth decay that some…
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Ideas for covering the impact of drug abuse on pregnant women
My story for The Atlantic, Into the Body of Another, looked at how mothers in many states were receiving lengthy prison sentences…
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Batea initiative hopes to help improve Wikipedia health content
Fred Trotter It’s well known that Google, Facebook and dozens of other companies mine the browsing histories of their users…
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Tips for reporters dealing with press offices
Health and science journalism today is a complex ecosystem of journals and their publicity machines, public information/press officers at universities,…