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Reporters encounter hospital’s lack of transparency
Blythe Bernhard and Jeremy Kohler of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch investigated a string of serious mistakes at a local hospital…
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Whooping cough: Not just a problem for kids
Maryn McKenna, AHCJ board member and self-proclaimed “most vaccinated person on the planet,” writes about her own bout with whooping…
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CDC: Obesity rises unabated, no state meets goals
According to Vital Signs, a new part of the CDC journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (more on that in…
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Text messages: health IT at its most basic
Amid the administration’s push for innovation in health information technology, the Associated Press’ Lauran Neergaard takes a broad look at…
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Eight Kansas, Missouri journalists named as Midwest Health Journalism Program Fellows
The Association of Health Care Journalists has named the 2010-11 class of the Midwest Health Journalism Program, an annual fellowship…
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Media Fellows on Health Performance named for 2010-11
The Association of Health Care Journalists has awarded the first AHCJ Media Fellowships on Health Performance. The program, supported by…
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Report examines Health Policy implementation
A special report just released by The American Prospect looks at the implementation of health care reform. For the wide-angle…
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FOI request for H1N1 documents still pending
Eleven months after she filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for…
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Doctors certified to use strokebuster don’t
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s John Fauber used data from the Joint Commission to discover that a clot-busting drug that could…
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Health Journalism 2011 set for Philadelphia
Put AHCJ’s annual conference on your calendar: April 14-17, 2011, in Philadelphia. The program will include dozens of panels, field…
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