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Reporting finds ‘alarm fatigue’ to blame in patient deaths
A life-support monitor. (Photo: RambergMediaImages via Flickr) In January, a patient at one of the country's best hospitals suffered a…
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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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Health Journalism 2011: What editors wish writers knew
We love writers, declared all three panelists at "What Editors Wish Writers Knew," a well-attended freelancers' session at Health Journalism…
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Pulitzer nods demonstrate breadth of health beat
This week’s Pulitzer announcements demonstrated just how far health journalism spread its wings in 2010, with health-related stories snagging wins…
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Health Journalism 2011: The intersection of highway safety and health
If a disease killed nearly 33,000 Americans each year and was the No. 1 killer of Americans younger than 35,…
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Health Journalism 2011: Panelists suggest stories about Health Policy implementation
There are three key aspects for journalists to watch as the Affordable Care Act moves into its second year: Congress,…
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Health Journalism 2011: Neurosurgeon reflects on time in the media spotlight
For G. Michael Lemole Jr., M.D., it's simply his job to save the lives of patients who have suffered from…
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Health Journalism 2011: Collins focuses on molecular basis for diseases to develop therapeutics
At the start of his Newsmaker Briefing at Health Journalism 2011, Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes…
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From super crops to super bugs: Experience with insect microbes (Aqeel Ahmad presentation)
Presentation from Aqeel Ahmad, Ph.D., a research entomologist, Agronomic and Environmental Assessment Sciences Center, Monsanto Company, who spoke on the…
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Health Journalism 2011: Reporting on effectiveness of autism treatments
The mother of a child with autism, along with medical experts, helped unravel the complicated information about treating the condition…
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