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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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Award winners tackled range of important medical, health issues
Investigations into shoddy oversight of adult care homes and low quality at dialysis centers – along with moving portrayals of…
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2010 winners named in premier health journalism awards
Investigations into shoddy oversight of adult care homes and low quality at dialysis centers – along with moving portrayals of…
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Journalists must heed ethics in disaster coverage
A little more than a week after the historic earthquake, tsunami and nuclear emergency in Japan, journalists are beginning to…
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Meeting the challenges of explaining Health Policy
Editor’s note: Today we introduce Joanne Kenen as AHCJ’s Health Policy topic leader. She will be writing blog posts, tip…
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Survey: Only half of federal agencies have better FOI procedures
A report from the Knight Open Government Survey found that, despite some progress, federal agencies are only halfway there when…
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