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Monitoring the Pulse of Health Care Journalism
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Addiction treatment options expand under health law – but will needs be met?
Here’s a great piece by Carla Johnson, an Associated Press medical writer and AHCJ board member. She highlights a little-known…
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How one reporter asks for — and often gets — meaningful medical pricing information
As a writer covering health for Angie’s List Magazine, a consumer publication that goes to more than 1 million members around…
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Member close-up: John Dorschner
Now 68, Dorschner has retired from The Miami Herald after working there since 1970. That’s almost 43 years with the…
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Sequester hits health journalism training
News came over the weekend that the annual Medicine in the Media workshop run by the National Institutes of Health…
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Drugs remain on market despite fraudulent research; FDA withholds information
Despite concluding that a drug research lab’s violations “were so ‘egregious,’ and pervasive that studies conducted there between April 2005…
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Despite ADA’s stance, dentists praise use of therapists
In spite of fierce opposition by some mainstream dental groups, workforce auxiliaries known as dental therapists are now at work…
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Not all news about the aging brain is bad
We spend a lot of time reporting on studies about dementia, Alzheimers, loss of cognitive function, and other issues related…
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Guide to data to aid in health care reporting
Every month we add to the resources and data sections of the Health Policy core topic area, with notes on…
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Reporter’s advice can help you get past sources’ jargon
If you’ve interviewed anyone with an M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. or Sc.D. after his or her name, you know: It’s often…
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How one reporter asks for — and often gets — meaningful medical pricing information
Michael Schroeder As a writer covering health for Angie’s List Magazine, a consumer publication that goes to more than 1 million…
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