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Carving out your piece of the pandemic story can require persistence and ingenuity
Katherine Eban When President Trump declared in March that the generic antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was a “game-changer” in the battle…
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These data resources can help localize studies on medical facility quality control
If you cover medical studies for national publications, you rarely have to worry about localizing it to one particular region.…
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Study: Low vitamin K associated with higher risk of death
Be like Popeye. Eat your spinach. And kale. And lettuce. That’s the takeaway from a recent multi-ethnic meta-analysis by researchers…
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New data source useful when covering health care professionals
So much of reporting on medical studies focuses on drugs, treatments, preventive care, health outcomes, risk factors and similar aspects…
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Time to track how the pandemic is hurting health care provider finances
While the death of more than 120,000 Americans related to the novel coronavirus is the most important story, the economic…
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Professor helps journalists report on assessing COVID-19 transmission risks
Scientists now have a much better idea of how people become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But…
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Pandemic changes, or pauses, state approaches to health coverage
Before the new coronavirus pandemic, expanding health insurance was a hot topic in the presidential campaign. States were considering a…
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Coronavirus is shaking up states’ coverage expansion plans
Before the novel coronavirus pandemic, several states were looking at ways of expanding coverage – no matter what the outcome…
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Protect readers’ time and bandwidth from unpublished trials
Every week for years, I’ve received press releases about studies starting up. This one looking at heart disease, that one…
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Is CMS putting older adults at increased risk during the pandemic?
As states struggle to contain cases and deaths from COVID-19, nursing homes and other senior care facilities remain epicenters of…
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