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Three AHCJ members win NAM awards
Chris King, Rong Xiaoqing, and Sunita Sohrabji are among the winners of the 2009 National Ethnic Media Awards, sponsored by…
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Boulton, Wahlberg named Kaiser Media Fellows
AHCJ members Guy Boulton, a business reporter covering health care and health insurance for The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and David…
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Cancer data fly and reporters struggle to keep up
For health journalists, the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Oncology poses a double-barreled challenge: How to cope…
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Galewitz takes job with Kaiser Health News
Phil Galewitz, a health writer at The Palm Beach Post, will join Kaiser Health News as a correspondent on June…
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Two communities, two tales of health care costs
In The New Yorker, Atul Gawande, M.D., looks at how the United States can contain the rising cost of health…
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Swine flu vaccine might be ready this fall
If all goes well, a vaccine against the H1N1 flu virus could be available for widespread use by October. The…
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Hospitals avoid reporting disciplined docs
The nonprofit group Public Citizen has released a report showing that hospitals nationwide are taking advantage of loopholes to avoid…
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Autism and vaccines: A failure to communicate
When it comes to vaccine safety, findings that scientists regard as proven facts haven’t been strong enough to shake public…
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CMS reverses decision on access to Idaho inspection reports
An apparent “misinterpretation” of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services led to the federal agency warning Idaho to stop posting…
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Premature coverage of abstracts troublesome
Gary Schwitzer of the University of Minnesota writes about what he calls a “troubling trend:” Reporters are writing articles based…
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