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PR pro describes pitching health stories to reporters
Jessica Levco, of Ragan Communications, provides some insight into how at least one public relations professional is pitching health stories…
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Journalists diet and write about it
Personal anecdotes seem to seep into the blogs of just about every health care journalist out there; given the subject…
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Sapien chronicles formaldehyde battle
At ProPublica, Joaquin Sapien tells the story of how Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter successfully obstructed the FDA’s attempts to…
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Contaminated foods pose threat to public
Contaminated foods sicken and kill Americans every year. Though the stories receive wide coverage in the U.S. media, the danger…
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Experts acknowledge difficulty of writing about preventive health guidelines
When it comes to clinical practice guidelines, Americans have, no pun intended, developed a healthy skepticism. "It's as complicated as…
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Writers’ software suggestions
Independent journalist Maryn McKenna, a member of AHCJ's board of directors, offered this handout during the "Surviving and thriving as…
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TBI, PTSD among war-related illnesses veterans face
More than 2 million service men and women have served overseas in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.…
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Residents not warned of nursing home foreclosures
Writing for The New York Times, Laurie Udesky reports that despite significant rates of foreclosures, California nursing homes are not…
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Untold stories remain in nursing homes
Many reporters reject doing nursing home investigations because they assume all the best stories have already been done. But serious…
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Women’s health an important topic for the next decade
"Women became a topic in the nineties, and all we could hear about was pregnancy. Women's health was considered to…
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