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AHCJ member wins LA Emmy for PCOS coverage
AHCJ member Gerri Shaftel Constant of KTTV-Los Angeles earned her 10th Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for a three-part series…
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Tracking Canada’s asbestos funding
Fallout from Dangers in the Dust, the mammoth asbestos investigation by the BBC and the Center for Public Integrity/International Consortium…
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NFL to post concussion warning in locker rooms
In The New York Times, football concussion reporter Alan Schwarz examines the content and ramifications of a new warning poster…
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How the NHS muzzles U.K. whistle-blowers
Victoria Macdonald of Britain’s Channel 4 News, with the help of the nonprofit Bureau of Investigative Journalism, used FOIA requests…
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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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