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Key issues for tackling hunger in America
Janice Lynch Schuster One perennial issue for reporters covering the social determinants of health is the fact that millions of…
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Reporter describes opportunities, challenges in covering oral health stories in ethnic neighborhoods
Tooth decay puts a particularly heavy burden upon children of color, as do the pain and tooth loss that can…
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New report: More support needed for male caregivers
Men now make up about 40 percent of all family caregivers, but a new report says most are not reaching…
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ACA repeal, Trump budget threaten expanded spending on public health
The House’s ACA repeal bill finally passed last week. It potentially will have a significant impact on public health if…
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Refugees, undocumented immigrants often face ’roundabout care’
For Ghassan, a Syrian refugee seeking asylum after arriving in the United States about two years ago, a recent visit…
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Reporter’s work pushes regulators, legislators to act on opioids
Lack of work, educational gaps, despair, overprescribing – there’s a host of reasons behind the nation’s opioid crisis. It may…
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Reporters must contend with readers’ perceptions, ‘fake facts’
In my blog posts, I usually try to highlight stories that have a lesson – something that you can take and…
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Changes in health care landscape could mean big stories in oral health
It is hard to know, amid the ongoing battle to reshape the nation’s health care system, what the future holds…
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Probing court records helps uncover West Virginia opioid profits
Eric Eyre When the Charleston Gazette-Mail went to court last year to unseal records detailing pain pill shipments to West…
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Story ideas revealed in intersection of mental illness, criminal justice system
One of the sessions featured at Health Journalism 2017 in Orlando explored the intersection of the criminal justice system and…
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