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Covering health insurance in a less-populated state can be a significant challenge for journalists because most often, there’s not enough…
If you cover medical studies for national publications, you rarely have to worry about localizing it to one particular region.…
So much of reporting on medical studies focuses on drugs, treatments, preventive care, health outcomes, risk factors and similar aspects…
When Seema Verma, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator, announced June 4 that she and the Centers for Disease…
CMS has finally posted a database of reported deaths by facility for approximately 30,000 nursing homes. The data is updated…
When I first began writing in health and science journalism, my biggest “micro-beat” was vaccines (and still is). I had…
It can be exhausting to keep up with who is testing what in the race to develop a vaccine for…
One goal of the national Healthy People 2020 initiative was to reduce the rate of first-time cesarean delivery (C-section) rates…
As my colleague Joyce Frieden reported for MedPage Today on Tuesday, in 2020, reporters will be able to compare the…
Deaths from drug overdose in 2017 alone exceeded the total number of Americans who died during the entire Vietnam War,…