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Rx for the Bronx: Radio series looks beyond medical care for New York’s least healthy county
Amanda Aronczyk The Bronx has ranked as the least-healthy county in New York State for several years running. The prevalence…
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Covering Medicaid’s orthodontic benefits
Sheila Hagar After a hint from her own dentist, Sheila Hagar started looking into concerns about the rising numbers of Medicaid…
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New jobs, awards and more for AHCJ members
The latest AHCJ members in the news are Gerri Constant, Mari Edlin, John Gever, Rachel Gurevich, Janice Lynch Schuster, Eric T.…
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Housing and health: Finding stories and getting the reporting right
Megan Sandel, M.D., M.P.H., an expert on the impact of housing on child health, says journalists would do well to…
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Award-winning journalist honored with scholarship in her name
A new scholarship for students who show promise in medical journalism will honor longtime health journalist Marianne D. Mattera, who…
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Building transparency in health care costs
Lisa Pickoff-White Joel Withrow Jeanne Pinder Anybody who has ever built software knows how tricky it can be (hello, HealthCare.gov!).…
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New key concept: The inequality of violent injury and death
The statistics are hard to believe. The most dangerous counties in the United States have rates of violent death that…
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How to understand 2015 exchange plan insurance rate changes
It’s rate increase season, and as we head into the second ACA enrollment season, it’s hard to understand why some…
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Are medical, dental boards public or private? Case over teeth-whitening services may decide
A long-simmering feud between North Carolina’s state dental board and a group of non-dentists who provide teeth-whitening services in malls…
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AHCJ pushes for more data on residency programs
The Association of Health Care Journalists has called upon the accreditor of physician residency programs to be more transparent with…
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