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Annual conference to offer panels, field trips and more
Health Journalism 2010, set for April 22-25 in Chicago, is expected to draw hundreds of reporters, editors, news directors and…
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High cost of foodborne illness broken down by state
The Make Our Food Safe coalition’s latest study provides a state-by-state breakdown of the cost of foodborne illness, both in…
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Grand Rounds points to end-of-life posts
AHCJ member Larry Beresford hosts the Palliative Care Grand Rounds this month and has compiled an impressive roundup of end-of-life…
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Are insurers to blame for rising costs?
The San Francisco Chronicle‘s Carolyn Lochhead and Victoria Colliver use the recent furor over insurer Anthem’s rate hikes to explore…
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AHCJ: Joint Commission site obscures information
In a letter to Mark R. Chassin , M.D., the Joint Commission‘s president and CEO, the Association of Health Care…
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Palliative care piece launches embedded dispatches
Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer Michael Vitez has been embedded with Abington Memorial Hospital in suburban Montgomery County, Pa. Karl Stark,…
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FDA to regulate health information technology?
Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund duo who have made it their business to stay in…
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AHCJ calls for better information from hospital accreditation Web site
The Association of Health Care Journalists has called upon the Joint Commission, the nonprofit agency that accredits hospitals, to do…
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New CDC data pinpoint heart disease hot spots
Data from Medicare records of more than 28 million people each year between 2000 and 2006 in the 50 states,…
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List of 2009’s best includes health care stories
Conor Friedersdorf of TrueSlant.com includes a number of health-care related stories among his list of best journalism of 2009. See…
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