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Community-led effort sparks public health wave
Writing in The New York Times, Jessica Reaves writes about how a 2000-06 Chicago community survey embodies the block-by-block, community-reliant…
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Turkey opts for costly hospital finance scheme
The Turkish government has begun to select bids for the first of a "large number" of major hospital projects, estimated…
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Dialysis program: Experiment in socialized medicine comes with high costs, risks
ProPublica’s Robin Fields has put together an artful examination of the nation’s Medicare-funded dialysis system. Part history and part investigation,…
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Understanding risk, and why 83% is really 10.5%
Physician and blogger Alex Lickerman used a discussion he had regarding hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer as an opportunity…
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CURE magazine earns Trailblazer Award
CURE magazine, a free, patient-oriented health publication which employs four AHCJ members, was named “Best Consumer Healthcare Publication” by PM360…
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Georgia Health News aims to fill gaps in coverage
Georgia Health News has entered the growing group of independent websites covering health news. The site’s mission is “to fill…
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Calif. hospitals slow to prep for quakes
California Watch health reporter Christina Jewett has found that despite an earthquake readiness push that’s a decade and a half…
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Florida addicts priced out of private rehab
In the St. Petersburg Times, reporter Leonora LaPeter Anton attempts to reconcile a local paradox: The state has suffered from…
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11 chosen as 2010-11 AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows
The Association of Health Care Journalists has announced the selection of the third class of AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows. The…
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Lieberman: Election is evidence media got reform coverage wrong
In her column on CJRorg, AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman writes that this week’s elections showed just how thoroughly…
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