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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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Journalists encounter obstacles in identifying conflicts of interest in medical research
Journalists have new tools to decipher conflicts of interest in medical research, but there are still many obstacles to obtaining…
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