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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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Tax documents show CEO pay exceeds charity care at some Calif. nonprofit hospitals
Ron Shinkman, editor of the trade newsletter Payers & Providers, spent four months reviewing tax documents filed by 120 nonprofit…
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Cannabis carpetbaggers crisscross California
The Redding Record Searchlight‘s Ryan Sabalow paints a classic tale of the principled old guard taking a stand against exploitative,…
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Guide focuses on diversity in services for the aging
This is a guest post by independent journalist Eileen Beal, that she wrote at my invitation. Don’t let the title…
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Project offers guide on access to autopsy records
The Marion Brechner Citizen Access Project at the University of Florida College of Communications has posted an online guide to…
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CDC says monitoring system finds no ill from spill
The CDC has two major monitoring programs active in the Gulf of Mexico during the spill: The National Poison Data…
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