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Monitoring the Pulse of Health Care Journalism
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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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Digging deeper into the Census’ new health insurance stats
Two fellow AHCJ core topic leaders, Susan Heavey and Joseph Burns, have looked at aspects of the recent census report…
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D.C. chapter learns how ACA affects craft brewery, other small businesses
About 25 Washington, D.C., area journalists met on Sept. 30 to learn about how the Affordable Care Act was affecting…
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Boehner’s departure won’t end attacks on the ACA
There’s a lot of speculation about what outgoing House Speaker John Boehner may or may not accomplish in his last…
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How one reporter re-purposed her broadcast, online work for a new audience
Joanne Silberner Joanne Silberner did a heavily reported series of radio stories and web posts on cancer in developing countries…
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Congress votes to give states more say in defining small group insurance market
In 2016, the definition of “small business” or “small group” market was supposed to change under the Affordable Care Act.…
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Reporting on hype, hope around treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
Alan Cassels There seems to be no end of news reports about promising therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.…
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