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Affordable Care Act: The politics of health care, year two
The Affordable Care Act just hit the one-year mark, but that’s not likely to change the political dynamic in D.C.…
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Presidents of AHCJ, SPJ call for more openness from Obama administration
The presidents of the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists published an op-ed in The…
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Pierce uses medicine to tell a classic sports story
It has all the fixings of a front-page health narrative – the handsome baseball star, the stunning neurological condition, the…
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Unlocking the brain’s response to trauma, violence
Scott Johnson of The Oakland Tribune writes about the science of chronic trauma and puts it in the perspective of…
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Allen looks at present, future of Nev. transparency
Writing for the Las Vegas Sun, reporter Marshall Allen put a fitting cap on an award-winning investigative run at the…
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Skyrocketing drug price is chance to examine manufacturing, FDA approval process
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter (and Midwest Health Journalism Program Fellow) Jim Doyle has put together a series of stories on KV…
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Should Seattle Superfund site address health as well as pollution?
InvestigateWest’s Carol Smith writes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and InvestigateWest.org that the focus on the environmental disaster of Seattle’s industrial…
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Reporter shares lessons from writing first-person medical stories
Late last year, the Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor ran a series of stories in which reporter Meg Heckman used her…
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Journalist makes case against sanitizing disaster coverage
At a time when the ethics of anecdotal and emotion-heavy disaster coverage have come into question, as they tend to…
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Affordable Care Act reaches one-year mark
The Affordable Care Act became law one year ago today. The biggest provisions – the state-based exchanges and the subsidies…
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