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rural health
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In China, pharma hires thousands of doctors to sell drugs
Bloomberg News reports that pharmaceutical companies in China are poaching thousands of trained physicians, many of them recent grads, to…
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Reporter’s narrative illuminates little-researched birth defect
When Wisconsin State Journal reporter David Wahlberg investigated what appeared to be rural Wisconsin’s increase in gastroschisis, a rare birth…
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Troubled Mont. nursing home illustrates special federal status
Reporters looking to implement the tricks they picked up at AHCJ 2011 or one of our workshops can look to…
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Montana student documents frontier hospital
Every year, as part of the Montana Town Project, University of Montana School of Journalism students pick one little rural…
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Veteran journalists speak from front lines of prescription drug epidemic
In a subject area increasingly defined by its steady drumbeat of alarming numbers and increasingly dire statistics, the opening to…
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Nun talks about practicing medicine in rural Miss.
In today’s episode of The Story, from American Public Media, listeners hear from Sister Anne Brooks, a physician who has…
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Rural health care in Calif. nearing ‘crisis’
In a collaboration between the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting and the San Francisco Chronicle, the center’s David…
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Rural health on the frontier
A defining feature of reporter David Wahlberg’s ongoing look at rural health care for the Wisconsin State Journal has been…
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Ky. program a model for improving rural access
As part of his series on rural health, the Wisconsin State Journal‘s David Wahlberg traveled down to Appalachian Kentucky to…
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Why young docs shun practicing in rural America
For a look at the quotidian struggles facing young doctors who accepted federal loan aid in exchange for a three-to-five-year…