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New tip sheet offers ideas for reporting on drug therapies
Effective reporting requires health journalists to be comfortable independently evaluating clinical studies and drawing their own conclusions about data. If…
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Reporter describes how she tied lead-tainted water data to children
Laura Ungar The lead-tainted water in Flint, Mich., got one national reporter wondering: What other areas could have children affected…
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Get county-level data to report on competition in insurance marketplace
As large insurers, such as United Healthcare, Humana and Aetna, drop out of the Healthcare.gov marketplace, consumers are left with…
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Treatment offers an alternative to ‘drill and fill’
A study presented this summer at an international dental conference has added to growing evidence that topical applications of silver…
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Tuning in to health care with the podcast boom
Podcasts are all the rage, so we’ve been collecting some health policy-related ones for you. Some of these regularly tackle…
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AHCJ webcast to examine drug prices, other cost challenges
Mylan’s price hike for its EpiPen allergy medication fueled an Internet storm this week, with consumers and U.S. legislators expressing…
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Looking deeper into the promise of silver diamine fluoride
A University of California San Francisco (UCSF) study published earlier this year laid out a protocol for the use of silver…
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Legal reporters explain how to cover medical funding companies that prey on patients
Jessica Dye Alison Frankel For many reasons, the health insurance system leaves some consumers unable to cover the full cost…
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New tip sheet helps reporters shape Medicare coverage
Why are the nuances of Medicare benefits so complicated? While journalists may never find the answer to this question, they…
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10 things reporters should know about covering Medicare
If it’s hard for health care journalists to keep up with Medicare’s flood of announcements about new and revised programs,…
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