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Monitoring the Pulse of Health Care Journalism
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Pew: Health care again tops week’s media coverage
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, which monitors 55 news outlets and about 1,300 stories across all…
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NPR: Reform arguments confuse folks
NPR’s Liz Halloran reports that while many understand that the nation’s health system may need to be changed, and that…
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Kaiser tool compares Health Policy proposals
The Kaiser Family Foundation has put together a thorough, handy tool for comparing various health care reform proposals, one which…
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Decline in science journalism hurts health reporting
In The Nation, Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum assess the state of science journalism and seek to answer “how did…
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FDA opposes antibiotics overuse in animal feeding
Citing the dangers of drug-resistant microbes, newly appointed Food and Drug Administration chief Joshua Sharfstein testified against the over-use of…
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Reform coverage that raises important questions
AHCJ president Trudy Lieberman, writing for CJR.org, points to several stories about health care reform that raise important questions about…
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DoD campaigns against stigma of depression, PTSD
The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury’s new Real Warriors campaign is designed to aid…
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Politifact, AP fact check health care claims
Angie Drobnic Holan, writing on the St. Petersburg Times‘ Politifact site, has composed a point-by-point debunking of a lengthy anti-reform…
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Available data on children falls short
David Crary of the Associated Press writes about weak, outdated and insufficient data in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual…
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Disabled student abuse goes unpunished in Nev.
Darcy Spears, a reporter at KTNV-Las Vegas, has discovered a number of disturbing stories of teachers abusing special needs students…
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