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Gays excluded from clinical trials
Thanks to an awards announcement from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, we just noticed Jen Colletta’s story in…
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Dissecting Gawande’s narrative structure
In a recent post, Not Exactly Rocket Science’s Ed Yong tried to break down Atul Gawande’s work and figure out…
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Identical tubing demonstrates FDA’s inaction
In The New York Times, Gardiner Harris outlines the problem of medical tubing that looks very similar – leading to…
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Presentations from the 2010 Influenza Workshop for Journalists
AHCJ sponsored 14 journalists to take part in a two-day workshop in August 2010 at the CDC about covering influenza.…
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Mass. won’t post hospitals’ death rates
The Boston Globe‘s Liz Kowalczyk reports that, two years after it was first proposed by a consumer group, the Massachusetts…
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NAMC folds, qualified members invited to AHCJ
The National Association of Medical Communicators, an organization for medical broadcasters, writers, organizational spokespersons and health professionals who communicate with…
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Australia lagging in conflict-of-interest disclosures
When a country is holding up the United States as a model of progress on medical conflict of interest issues,…
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AHCJ pushes for access to publicly funded research
The strong public interest in “direct, free and full text access to research articles” prompted the Association of Health Care…
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Initiative to help reporters cover European health
AHCJ has launched an effort to help reporters understand and cover health issues in Europe. This new resource includes a…
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As school starts, so do youth sports injuries
The University of Michigan’s new Michigan NeuroSport Concussion Program seems to be cropping up everywhere, and as far as I…
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