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How I did it: Reporting on apparent misconduct in influential Alzheimer’s research
Alzheimer’s disease afflicts more than 6 million Americans. Yet since 1906, when Alois Alzheimer first saw characteristic sticky plaques in…
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How is the U.S. preparing for the “second punch” of antibiotic resistance?
Journalists should check in on how the U.S. government and the nation’s hospitals and medical practices intend to regain ground…
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Covering antibiotic resistance (2022 update)
Health journalists should know that antibiotic resistance is a quiet, but big threat to modern medicine. The threat has become…
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A hallucinogen combined with psychotherapy may curb alcohol use disorder
Journalists covering alcoholism may already know that it is the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind tobacco smoking,…
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How to take advantage of AHCJ’s Freelance Center
The AHCJ website is packed with information that is sometimes difficult to find. That should be remedied early next year…
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Evaluating concerns about accelerated FDA drug approvals
Congress has a chance in September to try to speed the pace of studies needed to confirm whether drugs sold…
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Will the FDA get more tools for handling accelerated drug approvals?
September is a great time for journalists to examine how well U.S. regulators are handling the accelerated approval pathway for…
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Useful sources to aid reporting on pharmacy benefit managers
Last month, Ed Silverman at STAT News covered the story about how Centene, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, agreed to…
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Journalist explains the right and wrong way to cover suicide
When covering suicide, words, and framing matter, a lesson Raleigh, N.C.-based Kaiser Health News reporter Aneri Pattani learned firsthand when suicide…
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Tips for covering suicide
As suicidal ideation, attempted suicides and actual suicides have increased in recent years, so has coverage of those topics and…
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