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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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Providing context for dementia studies is important
Unless you have just emerged from winter hibernation it’s hard to miss the increasingly grim projections about of Alzheimer’s disease…
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R.I. program provides care outside hospitals in effort to reduce ER use
Using community health workers to work with frequent emergency room visitors is showing some success in reducing ER use. The…
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Tech Tools to Diversify Your Sources (Shuka Kalantari presentation)
Shuka Kalantari, health outreach coordinator, KQED-San Francisco, spoke on the panel “Tech tools to diversify your sources.”
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The Potential in Potential: Using electricity to induce regeneration (Dany Adams presentation)
Dany Adams, Ph.D., research associate professor, Tufts University, spoke on the panel “Promises of replacement medicine.”
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English, please? How to coax everyday language from your sources
Kathleen Doheny If you’ve interviewed anyone with an M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. or Sc.D. after his or her name, you know:…
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#ahcj13 speakers featured in news about Boston Marathon bombings
If you attended Health Journalism 2013, you heard from plenty of Boston-based medical professionals, some of whom are in the…
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Diabesity Cheat Sheet (Rich Siegel presentation)
Rich Siegel, M.D., co-director, Tufts Medical Center’s Diabetes Clinic, spoke on the panel “Diabetes: Latest in diagnosis, treatment, prevention.”
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Birds, Bears, Turtles, Trains, Coupons, Cocks … and Moses (Gary Schwitzer presentation)
Gary Schwitzer, publisher, HealthNewsReview.org, spoke on the panel “Reporting on medical studies.”
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