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Just One Breath: Will California Take Valley Fever as Seriously as Tobacco?

As we have seen with air pollution, tobacco use, and other public health concerns, when California starts setting policy on a topic, it can have a powerful effect nationally.

Just One Breath: GOP Whip Could Effect Real Change with Valley Fever

The Reporting on Health Collaborative heard earlier this week that Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, was going to meet with the head of the Centers for Disease Control and then issue a statement. Is that itself worth a story?

Just One Breath: CDC Stands Up and Takes Notice of Valley Fever

The CDC's research on valley fever's impact in California and Arizona was both an unexpected validation of the Reporting on Health Collaborative's work and an encouragement to do more of the same.

Just One Breath: Senate resignation provides a lesson in journalism results

Whether the subject is a money-squandering government agency or a looming public health threat or a failing school system, reporters want to be able to say something changed as a result of their reporting. Momentum might get going after a story, but continuing it is another matter.

Reporting on Health Collaborative demonstrates how media can help fix problems

Journalists have a knack for pointing out problems. They rarely explain how to fix these problems. The message to readers is: the world is a mess. You figure out how to make it better. There is a growing movement among reporters to remedy this.

Just One Breath: Tips for Covering Health Problems in Prisons

Journalist Rebecca Plevin faced many challenges reporting on the high rates – and costs – of valley fever in California prisons. Here's what you can learn from her work.

Just One Breath: Tackling a Disease Before Treatment Even Starts

We don’t write enough about what happens when someone is given the wrong diagnosis. Here's what you should know.

Just One Breath: Five Tips for Writing about Health Costs

Reporters investigating the impact of valley fever in California dug up striking information about the disease's financial costs to taxpayers. Here's how they did it.

Just One Breath: Share your valley fever story

Behind the increasing cases of valley fever in California are people whose lives have been forever changed by the disease.

Just One Breath: Valley Fever Harms More People Every Day than the Diseases that Make Headlines

Ask someone about an infectious disease that scares them. Chances are good they will not mention valley fever. But doctors compare it to cancer because of the way it feeds on tissue and keeps coming back.

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