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More pills mean more risk
Sometimes it takes a celebrity to draw attention to something we should have noticed long ago. Though the exact cause…
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AHCJ speaker writes about physiology of eating
The New York Times‘s Tara Parker-Pope reviewed former FDA chief Dr. David Kessler’s new book, The End of Overeating: Taking…
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NY stem cell researchers can pay egg donors
The ethical thicket that is stem cell research just got a little more complex. New York became the first state…
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Plain Dealer adds ‘price compare’ feature
Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Sarah Jane Tribble recently announced a new feature for the paper’s health and fitness blog. Every…
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STATS: Media ignored science in BPA coverage
In a review of American media coverage of the controversy of bisphenol A, researchers at STATS (a nonprofit, nonpartisan Statistical…
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Sunshine Week may drop employee, fundraising
Clint Hendler reports in the Columbia Journalism Review that Sunshine Week’s only full-time coordinator will likely lose her job soon.…
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Paper’s investigation reveals contaminated drinking water
In July 2007, the Fayetteville, N.C., City Council learned about a neighborhood's 20-year fight over gasoline contamination in private drinking…
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Health insurance exec becomes hostile witness
You know your industry is in a real jam with Congress when the nosy legislators call an ex-spinmeister to testify…
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Why should reporters use Twitter? Read on …
By keeping track of area Twitter traffic, reporter Sarah Jane Tribble of the Cleveland Plain Dealer noticed that the Cleveland…
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Midwest Health Journalism Fellows graduate; applications accepted for next class
The Midwest Health Journalism Program completed another year with the graduation in June of its second class of fellows. The…
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