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Keep caveats in mind when writing about climbing premiums, Health Policy
Insurers are beginning to file their rate requests and, naturally, they are beginning to generate headlines as well as more…
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Pa. bill would require disclosure of food stamp purchases
A Pennsylvania congressman last week filed a bill that would require retailers to report which items are bought with food…
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Complaints to attorneys general yield sources for dental investigation
David Heath Dollars and Dentists, a joint investigation by David Heath of the Center for Public Integrity and Jill Rosenbaum of…
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Coverage of Tulsa dental clinics’ violations has been cautious
Health officials in Oklahoma are working to test patients of two dental clinics for hepatitis and HIV, after an inspection…
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Does this state make my butt look big?
A study published this month in the journal Obesity reports that the largest percentage of obese people in the United…
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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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