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How prescription drugs dethroned heroin in Seattle
Heather Bosch, of Seattle radio station KIRO, dedicated a five-part series to explaining why “Prescription drugs – used incorrectly –…
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Members earn Annenberg grants/fellowships
The USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism announced the winners of its Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism…
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Agreement lets disciplined nurses work in 24 states
ProPublica’s Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein are back on the disciplined caregivers beat, this time cooperating with USA Today to…
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Outpatient inspections show serious lapses
AP medical reporter and AHCJ board member Carla K. Johnson used FOIA requests to uncover a wealth of infection-control violations…
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U. of Michigan president sits on pharma board
On The New York Times Prescriptions blog, Duff Wilson reports that while her school has taken a lead in limiting…
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State snapshots make it easy to spot disparities in children’s health care
The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health has broken the 2007 NSCH Child Health and System Performance Profile…
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AHCJ speaks up for public access to publicly funded research
The Association of Health Care Journalists sent comments in support of full-text access to the fruits of publicly-funded research to…
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AHCJ members show their support for organization as individual donors
We don't often get the chance to say thank you to the individuals who add $20 to their membership renewals…
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Reform’s next challenge: Telling the health stories of real community residents
President's Corner, by Charles Ornstein Charles Ornstein On a day-to-day basis, it seemed that political stories got better billing -…
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Using public records to track elder abuse
The Lexington Herald-Leader‘s new series, Voiceless & Vulnerable, looks at nursing home abuse in the state. In the investigation (how…
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