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Tips on reporting about the changing nature of HPV-related cancers
Ever since actor Michael Douglas used his battle with throat cancer in 2013 to help raise awareness about the disease,…
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Uncovering a bombshell about Zika in Puerto Rico
Beth Murphy In early 2016, Beth Murphy set out to make a series of films focused on the impact of…
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What was that number again …? The solution to re-using stats in your writing
Like many reporters, I have developed several niches in my reporting within medical research. I most often write about pediatrics,…
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Midterm elections changed prospects for Medicaid expansion
The Commonwealth Fund’s Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., vice president for health care coverage and access, walked us through the prospects…
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Free dental care day provides opportunity for broader examination of access to care
In recent coverage of a free dental care day for low-income Mainers, Portland Press Herald reporter Joe Lawlor explored some…
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Free clinic provides opportunity for broader examination of access to care
Joe Lawlor In coverage of a free dental care day for low-income Mainers, Portland Press Herald reporter Joe Lawlor explored…
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Fellow looks at how Medicaid work requirements have been implemented in Arkansas
Benjamin Hardy, a reporter with the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network and a 2018 AHCJ Health Care Performance Reporting Fellow, has just…
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Journalists can learn from these ‘9.5 Theses for a Reformation of Evidence-Based Medicine’
At the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting last fall, I attended a talk by Kevin Powell, M.D., Ph.D., called…
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Reporting on Arkansas Medicaid work requirements — and their fallout
Benjamin Hardy Benjamin Hardy spent most of 2018 mining a fairly narrow vein of health policy: Arkansas’s first-of-its-kind work requirement…
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What does the partial government shutdown mean for older adults?
The federal government has been in partial shutdown mode since Dec. 21 – meaning it’s been nearly a full month…
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