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Reporter Offers Guidance for When the News Gets Personal
Los Angeles Times health reporter Anna Gorman believes first person health stories can be appropriate. That's why she shared about her deeply personal decision too undergo breast and ovarian surgeries to dramatically lower her own cancer risk.
by Ryan White
Should Medicare Yank Hospital Mistake Data? You Decide
One of the most powerful U.S. government agencies is bungling its public duties by planning to remove information about hospital-acquired conditions measurements from a website that allows patients to see how hospitals stack up against the national average.
End-of-Life Bill Sparks Anger, Accusations
Political powerhouse Texas Right to Life is working overtime to try to defeat a compromise measure aimed at improving state laws governing “end of life” medical decisions. But with time running out to get Senate Bill 303 passed, the fight over the legislation has shifted from political to personal.
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Some Native Americans could lose coverage under Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act is stirring up confusion and anger among the patients who visit a Los Angeles clinic dedicated to serving urban-based Native Americans. That's because President Barack Obama's reform has raised a painful question: which tribes get free health care and which have to pay?
Florida's Child Health Care Law Leaves Thousands in Limbo
As the Medicaid expansion became a higher priority for lawmakers, two state bills that would eliminate a five-year waiting period to access a public health insurance program for at least 20,000 lawfully residing poor children failed to pass this year.
Slap: University of Kentucky Has Threatened A Reporter Before
After Kentucky Kernel reporter Aaron Smith directly called two other students to confirm a rumor and reported their status as new walk-on basketball players in the newspaper, the University of Kentucky barred Smith from covering the school’s annual event where reporters interview team members.
National Instant Recess Honors Fitness Activist Antronette Yancey
What happens when you get up and move 10 minutes each day? Here's a look at how people across the country stopped what they were doing and collectively took Instant Recess to honor Antronette Yancey—physician, scientist, advocate—by exercising in a way she inspired.
Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Arizona Public Media seeks health care reporter/producer
Interested in being a TV health care reporter/producer at Arizona Public Media or in writing about diseases for the Food and Drug Administration? Check out more opportunities from our weekly job listings.
