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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.

by Vicky Hallett

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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posted by Nathanael Johnson | Tue, 05/15/12 07:08am

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posted by Deborah Schoch | Tue, 05/15/12 04:00am | 1 comments

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

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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