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Childhood obesity: Experts discuss strategies, solutions journalists should cover
Changing behavior and educating people about food is key to helping children become fit and avoid obesity, according to the…
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Public broadcasters have H1N1 site for journalists
Public Radio Exchange’s FluPortal.org, funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and done in collaboration with NPR, aims to provide…
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Members: Millman moves, Hirschman gets award
AHCJ member Christian Millman has been named executive editor of Taste of Home. He had been deputy editor, health and…
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NYT Mag takes deep look at data-driven medicine
David Leonhardt, writing for New York Times Magazine, profiles Brent James and Intermountain Healthcare, the hospital network he helps oversee.…
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AHCJ welcomes more than a dozen new members
AHCJ welcomes these new members: Jennifer Anderson, independent journalist, Falls Church, Va. Michelle Booth, reporter, El Tiempo, Las Vegas Renita…
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Tribune investigates nursing home psychiatrist
In the latest installment of the Chicago Tribune‘s investigation into Illinois nursing homes, Sam Roe and ProPublica’s Christina Jewett investigate…
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Report says food-borne illnesses hit kids hardest
With the Senate expected to consider food safety legislation that gives the FDA additional oversight and enforcement powers, two organizations…
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Eight months later, freelancer still generating story ideas from fellowship
Meryl Davids Landau writes about her experience as a 2008-09 AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellow, meeting her "fellow Fellows" and CDC…
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Hospital says it gives content to short-staffed media
Lindsey Miller of Ragan Communications Inc., a publisher of corporate communications, writes that Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has…
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Slip of the needle brings fallout, tough decisions
Writing for The New York Times, AHCJ member Sibyl Shalo Wilmont shares the chain of events that followed when she…
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