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Young women falling short of exercise recommendations
Many young women in recent weeks have walked across a stage in cap and gown to accept their hard-earned high…
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Using technology to monitor patients at home gets boost from Medicare
Remote patient monitoring – using technology to keep track of a patient’s health between doctor visits – is gaining traction…
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Caution required when discussing associations between oral and overall health
The mouth is connected to the body. Yet much remains unknown about the subtle workings of that connection. Research continues…
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Reporters share how they uncovered the jaw-dropping price of rabies treatment
Journalists who had been looking for stories about the high cost of medical bills came across an unexpected one –…
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Telling the community health story beyond police shootings
Often, when a police officer shoots an unarmed black man, news coverage is confined to the echoes of debate over…
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Reporter finds causes of infant mortality in Indiana are complex
Giles Bruce, who covers health for the Times of Northwest Indiana, did deep reporting into infant mortality in Indiana, work…
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Digging into high prices for rabies protection
Andy Miller Brenda Goodman This story started the way most good stories do, with a tip. Andy Miller heard about a…
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Safe spaces, toxic stress, child trauma: A public health take on the Stephon Clark shooting
Sammy Caiola When police officers shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark in Sacramento, Calif., in March, members of the black…
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Those images really are more than pretty pictures …
I just returned from the Logan Science Journalism Fellowship program at Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and I’m…
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grants $450,000 to journalism training, resources
The Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, the educational arm of the Association of Health Care Journalists, has been…
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