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Pesticide clouds a risk for children in farming areas
The Los Angeles Times‘ Amy Littlefield reports on children, in this case in California’s San Joaquin Valley, who are sprayed…
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Two counties illustrate health care disparities
Anna Tong and Phillip Reese of The Sacramento Bee write about health care disparities. They use two local counties to…
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AHCJ announces 2009-10 Midwest Health Journalism Program fellows
The Association of Health Care Journalists has named the 2009-10 class of the Midwest Health Journalism Program, an annual fellowship…
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Organ network looks to address regional disparities
American Medical News‘ Kevin O’Reilly writes that, spurred on by attention paid to Apple boss Steve Jobs’ trip to Tennessee…
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Where to find the facts on health care reform
With so many false claims about the health care reform proposals floating around, we thought this would be a good…
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Tompkins: Juvenile jails taking on mentally ill youth
Al Tompkins, the reliable story-spotter at the Poynter Institute, jumped at the potential to localize a New York Times story…
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Doctor’s offices consumed by insurance hassles
Tamara Keith of the public radio program “Marketplace” went into a doctor’s office to find out where the money’s being…
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University’s ties to testosterone therapy questioned
When it comes to sketchy medicine, female hormone therapies have company. According to reporter John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal…
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Parikh defends Emanuel of ‘death panel’ fame
Pediatrician and blogger Rahul Parikh published an defense of Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an Obama adviser and the right wing’s latest…
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Pew: Health care coverage still tops news
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has found that health care coverage filled more available news space…
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