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Finding My Way Through the Fitness Deserts

What I've learned writing my fitness deserts series for The Washington Post Express.

The "Health Insurance Tax": How an anti-tax HIT squad employs the press

A small business lobbyist explains how her group's campaign to kill a new "health insurance tax" relies on journalists: "We’re pitching things and hope people run it. We’re not paying for ads."

Editing Health Stories

Karen Weintraub, a former editor at The Boston Globe, offers tips for editing health and science stories — and deciding what not to cover.

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A Renewed Focus on Alzheimer's Dementia


Pills prices, agricultural antibiotics, Medicare politics, fracking and more from our Daily Briefing. more »
posted by Nathanael Johnson | Tue, 05/15/12 07:08am

How We Do Harm: Otis Brawley's new book skewers 'gluttony' of over-diagnosis, medical treatment


In his eye-opening new book, Dr. Otis Brawley takes aim at doctors who prescribe too much, drug companies who promise too much, and the system that rewards them both with hefty incomes and sales. more »
posted by Deborah Schoch | Tue, 05/15/12 04:00am | 1 comments

Diabetic mother delivers healthy 9-pound, 12-ounce girl


Candida King Bird, 38, the diabetic pregnant mother featured in The Oregonian earlier this month, delivered a healthy 9-pound, 12-ounce girl on Thursday. more »
posted by Bill Graves | Mon, 05/14/12 05:12pm

Daily Briefing: Cleaning Up Arsenic-Tainted Water in a Rural Calif. Town


Water woes persist in a rural town, an international push for universal health care, and unwelcome health cuts in California's revised budget, plus more from our Daily Briefing. more »
posted by Barbara Feder Ostrov | Mon, 05/14/12 11:15am

Revised Recommendations for Vaccines are Being Phased In, CDC Report Says


Can vaccines be more useful for some people than for others? more »
posted by Gergana Koleva | Mon, 05/14/12 11:02am

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