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Prenatal thyroid testing fuels screening debate
The New York Times‘ Ingfei Chen reported on the debate over the screening of pregnant women for thyroid disorders that…
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TVWeek turns spotlight on health journalism (#ahcj09)
TVWeek special correspondents Debra Kaufman, Allison J. Waldman and Elizabeth Jensen all contributed stories to the magazine’s in-depth coverage of…
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Anger at radio host shapes autism performance
Writing for The Women’s Media Center, Emily Wilson tells how a mother’s outrage over conservative talk radio host Michael Savage’s…
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CJR: Be skeptical of miraculous study results
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Katherine Bagley urges journalists to use caution when reporting the results of medical studies, citing…
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Op-ed: Obama’s quality metrics could be dangerous
On the Wall Street Journal‘s Op-Ed page, Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband cite the shortcomings of a quality metric-based system…
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Refusal to vaccinate puts others at risk
The Marin Independent Journal‘s Rob Rogers, reporting from a county where an above-average number of parents ask to exempt their…
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Moon on Medicare reform, supplmental insurance
As part of her Excluded Voices series in the Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors,…
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FDA cracks down on drug-sponsored links
Medical Marketing & Media‘s Matthew Arnold reports that the FDA’s marketing and advertising wing asked a number of major drug…
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Lack of health literacy can be fatal
Pauline Chen, M.D., wrote in The New York Times about “health literacy,” arguing that both patients and doctors share the…
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Calif. foundation backs new model; will be hiring
The board of directors of the California HealthCare Foundation met over the weekend and approved funding to create the California…
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