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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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Addressing racial and ethnic disparities
Despite spending more money on health care each year than any other country, the United States' quality of available care…
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What can we learn from superagers?
There's more than one recipe for becoming a superager, including well-known ingredients such as environmental and behavioral aspects, as well as…
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High hopes, limited regulation a dangerous formula for ‘functional foods’
Journalists covering nutritional supplements and so-called functional foods should compare the marketing messages of manufacturers to the science behind those…
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Looking for docs in all the wrong places?
In the wake of health care reform ,more patients will go in search of medical care. The question is, will…
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Caring for aging population will require health care transformation
In the sea of America's diverse population, the rising tidewaters of baby boomers are creating a tsunami of health-care needs.…
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Deconstructing a NYT op-ed in three acts
On April 17, New York Times‘ op-ed columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a column about globalization, international competition and entrepreneurship. Here,…
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Patient safety, reform, H1N1 top annual conference agenda
More than 500 attendees of Health Journalism 2010 took advantage of news-breaking speakers, experts on the impact of Health Policy,…
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Coverage of #ahcj2010 continues
• Sebelius predicts ‘hand-to-hand combat’ on health law • What did the U.S. learn from the H1N1 pandemic? • Journalists…
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