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Member close-up: Julie Rovner
Julie Rovner began her journalism career in 1985 at Legal Times, where she covered banking. She previously had been a…
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Congratulate this year’s conference fellowship recipients #ahcj13
The Association of Health Care Journalists has awarded more than 100 fellowships to help journalists attend its annual conference, Health…
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Project addresses readmission concerns by focusing on the frail
A new project is addressing the special concerns of frail elderly hospital patients in an attempt to help prevent lengthy…
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Hispanic children bear brunt of poor access to dental care
The lack of dental care is a big problem for children living below the poverty level and untreated tooth decay…
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Housework-hurts-sex study causes a dust up
You may have seen — and let’s face it — given a giant eye roll to a recent studythat claimed…
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Caregiving comes to the forefront of issues around aging
Photo by Ed Yourdon via Flickr The challenges of caregiving are getting new attention from AARP and the federal government…
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Dental problems sending more patients to hospitals
Toothaches have sent increasing numbers of poor and uninsured people to emergency rooms nationwide, according to a federal report. In…
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‘The insured and the unsure:’ What will businesses do?
I clicked on an Economist story on the future of employer-sponsored health insurance to get a sense of what picture…
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Lessons from a soda study that lost its fizz
Last October, Brigham and Women’s Hospital took the unusual step of recalling a press release about a research study. Just…
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Reporter’s guide to health care antitrust issues
Photo by afagen via Flickr We don’t normally think about local hospitals as cutthroat competitors seeking to put rivals out…
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