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Covering free dental clinics
Recently Julie Drizin, who directs the Journalism Center on Children & Families (JCCF), gathered a team of student reporters to…
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Latest Leapfrog scores show hospitals need to improve patient safety
A new report from the Leapfrog Group couldn’t be more timely given the attention hospitals have received recently on the…
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Five journalists named 2015 Reporting Fellows on Health Care Performance
COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Association of Health Care Journalists has awarded five journalists AHCJ Reporting Fellowships on Health Care Performance…
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Journalist offered money to cover Alzheimer’s briefing
A representative of Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, which treats and researches Alzheimer’s disease, has issued invitations to cover an hour-long briefing hosted…
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New Harvard report says U.S. unprepared to help seniors age in place
A newly-released report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University says the U.S. is woefully unprepared to…
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Director of journalism center reflects on students’ coverage of dental clinic
The Journalism Center on Children & Families (JCCF), formerly the Casey Journalism Center, is scheduled to close at the end…
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How does food labeling affect consumer choice?
If you’ve ever wondered about the real impact of those little black-and-white nutrition labels, or felt that perhaps food labeling…
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Miami journalist reports on the challenges in getting price transparency data in South Florida
Price transparency is supposed to be one of the keys to controlling the cost of health care. But as journalist…
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Covering the potential effects of hospital consolidation in Yakima, Wash.
Molly Rosbach When my editor and I first discussed the idea of a hospital consolidation project, I felt my eyes…
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Separating fact from fiction on water fluoridation
For close to seven decades now, jurisdictions across the country have been supplementing naturally-occurring fluoride in community water supplies to…
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