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Reporter offers testimony to FDA committee about agency’s communication policies
At the first meeting of the new advisory committee to the FDA on Risk Communications on March 6, 2008, AHCJ…
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2007 winners named in health journalism awards
An investigation into deaths in Georgia's psychiatric hospitals, a riveting examination of the way genetic screening tests have changed American…
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Scribes and scrubs: A healthy mix
While medical journalists, and students, have ready access to the successes of medicine through press conferences, hospital public information officers…
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Dennis Quaid, Elizabeth Edwards, Mike Leavitt to headline journalism conference
Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt and Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former presidential candidate Sen.…
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Author Q&A: Shannon Brownlee on overtreatment of patients
Shannon Brownlee's book “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer” challenges one of the core beliefs…
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Courant reporters investigate nursing home chain
Lisa Chedekel and Lynne Tuohy of The Hartford Courant used health inspection records, cost reports and court records to disclose…
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President’s corner: Candidates’ Health Policy language needs closer scrutiny, definition
The health care vocabulary of the presidential campaign includes terms such as "socialized medicine," "universal," "comprehensive," "guaranteed," "mandate," "coverage," "care"…
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Foundations stepping into news game
In Florida and Kansas, health foundations are funding news services to gather health policy news and disperse it on the…
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Bush signs compact with Tanzania, pledges nets to fight malaria
President George W. Bush's Feb. 17 visit to the East African nation of Tanzania brought a major boost in the…
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New guidelines strengthen AHCJ’s journalism commitment
Truth in advertising is a motto we adhere to at the Association of Health Care Journalists, right down to the…
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