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Dental care rates improve for children with public coverage but gaps persist, study says
More American children are obtaining dental services now than a decade ago. What’s more, a longstanding gap in dental visits…
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N.J. officials ask attorney general to investigate Horizon’s new tiered insurance network
Hospital administrators in New Jersey have asked state officials to intervene in a disagreement over a proposed tiered network of…
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Controversy over blood pressure trial demonstrates danger of relying on press releases
When the headline on a news release begins with “landmark” and includes the words “lifesaving,” “greatly,” and “milestone,” a good…
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How the system spells trouble for one health expert’s Rx
Last week, I shook the medicine bottle and felt just a few pills left. At the same time, weather forecasters…
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ProPublica offers rebuttal to Rand critique of Surgeon Scorecard
Not unexpectedly, ProPublica has published a response to the Rand Corporation’s recent 20-page critique of the journalism organization’s Surgeon Scorecard, a searchable database of…
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How one reporter re-purposed her broadcast, online work for a new audience
Joanne Silberner did a heavily reported series of radio stories and web posts on cancer in developing countries in 2013.…
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Workshop will help reporters translate medical research to audiences accurately
Even if you only cover health care occasionally, you run across myriad medical studies and health claims. The results and…
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Study indicates that frailty differs by region, income, race
Geography, race and income matter when it comes to frailty, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…
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Tips for finding patients, consumers for your stories
Lisa Zamosky For nearly two years, Lisa Zamosky has been writing a weekly health care column for the Los Angeles Times, called Healthcare…
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Physician-assisted death becomes legal in California
Gov. Jerry Brown on Oct. 5 signed California’s controversial End of Life Option Act, which permits physician-aided death for terminally…
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