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Covering long-term care: Programs, data and questions to ask
Long-term care has been in the news with the October 2011 demise of the CLASS Act – the first attempt…
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What do reporters need to know about Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)?
You’d think that advance directives signed by people with serious, life-threatening illnesses would ensure their treatment preferences or end-of-life wishes…
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Tip points reporter to troubled assisted-living facility
Mary Kate Malone The South Bend Tribune recently broke the news that state officials were considering yanking a license from…
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Boomerangst: Series helps explain what the aging of the boomers means
Reporters in Canada have done some pretty spectacular reporting on aging issues. The largest effort, Boomerangst, came from The Province…
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Medicare: The basics, the politics and the resources
Medicare is one of the largest government programs in the United States. Health reporters are bound to hear about it…
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Growth of for-profit hospices ripe for coverage
Given the recent spate – some good, some pretty muddy, and one I think pretty eye-opening – of articles about the…
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In Northwest, wood stoves run afoul of EPA
When setting out to explain the difficulty in improving the region’s air quality, InvestigateWest’s Robert McClure and Katie Campbell of…
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Project looks at problems in how deaths are investigated
The results of a yearlong joint investigation of the American autopsy system by ProPublica, Frontline and NPR show that problems…
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Journalism organizations ask HRSA to clarify how it will exercise restrictions
The Association of Health Care Journalists and five other journalism organizations asked federal health officials this week to specify how…
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Tsouderos looks at federal funding of alternative medicine
In her latest series, Chicago Tribune reporter Trine Tsouderos, whose award-winning reporting has brought her hard-nosed approach to investigating less-proven…
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