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CBC, grad students cover palliative care and death in Canada
The CBC’s new series on dying has a unique provenance: The stories are the work of 16 graduate students at…
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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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Emails show Texas council’s disregard for EPA regs
Thanks to an order from the Texas Attorney General, Mark Greenblatt, of KHOU-Houston, obtained emails (2-page PDF) which demonstrate the…
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DEA disciplines Fla. physicians; state allows them to continue practicing
Writing for Health News Florida, Brittany Davis shows the importance of following up on a disciplined caregivers story. In February,…
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NEJM article: Media partially to blame for slow adoption of cost-effective health care
In a new “Perspectives” piece in the New England Journal of Medicine, Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D., and Arnold Milstein, M.D.,…
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Effort to make Medicare data public advances
The Dow Jones Company’s efforts to make Medicare data public took a step forward yesterday with a U.S. magistrate recommending…
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AHCJ members provide context for reporter’s medical marijuana story
This is a guest post written at our request by Ryan Sabalow of the Redding (Calif.) Record-Searchlight. I knew I…
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Kenen suggests topics for regional, local Medicaid stories
My last blog post was on coverage of Medicaid, and we’ve just posted a tip sheet about it, pointing out…
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MJS finds attempts to improve infant mortality rates are fragmented
This year, a team at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel launched “Empty Cradles,” a yearlong reporting effort to find out why…
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Making sense – and stories – of Medicaid
Medicaid doesn’t get anywhere as much attention as Medicare. That’s nothing new – it’s been that way pretty much since…
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