Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 5:00am
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.
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April 02, 2013
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Monday, April 1, 2013 - 5:51am
Pharma isn't going to deliver disappointing earnings to Wall Street just because it has few new drugs coming online and has failed at its very purpose. It is recycling old for brand new uses.
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April 01, 2013
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Monday, April 1, 2013 - 4:17am
The medical equivalents of U-Haul, Home Depot and rental rug shampooers, self service operating rooms have been the subject of debate and excitement.
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April 01, 2013
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Friday, March 29, 2013 - 5:00am
Because I have encouraged health writers to think a little more like car writers, I took both HospitalInspections.org and Medicare’s Hospital Compare website for a comparison test drive.
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March 29, 2013
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Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 10:18pm
According to the World Health Organization, tuberculosis is second only to HIV/AIDS as the greatest killer worldwide due to a single infectious agent. In 2011 alone, an estimated 8.7 million new cases of TB occurred, leading to 1.4 million deaths.
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March 28, 2013
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Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 3:01pm
Whether you're interested in print, magazine, radio or television, this week's Career GPS has potential jobs for you.
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March 28, 2013
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Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 7:43am
As Congress grapples with immigration reform, questions are arising about the impact new Americans and legal residents could have on U.S. social programs, among them the health care system.
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March 28, 2013
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 4:33pm
Since the auto is becoming a luxury item in terms of cost and fuel, and because environmentally speaking, using a personal auto is becoming a less desirable option, it's important for Southern California urban planners to come up with transportation options.
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March 27, 2013
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Monday, March 25, 2013 - 7:07pm
Several years ago, a young man was gunned down and stripped of his belongings -- the shooters even wrenched his dental gold out of his mouth -- in a public housing complex across the street from an elementary school in a poor neighborhood in Spartanburg, South Carolina. ...
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March 25, 2013
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Monday, March 25, 2013 - 8:22am
The profit party is over for Big Pharma except for one category--drugs for autoimmune diseases. Conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and plaque psoriasis are rare in the adult population but a spate of new ads and self-diagnosing "quizzes" suggest they ar
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March 25, 2013
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Monday, March 25, 2013 - 5:00am
AHCJ launched its new searchable database of hospital inspections this month. It’s hard to overstate the achievement of merely persuading a government agency as large as CMS to relinquish any amount of control over records.
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March 25, 2013
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Friday, March 22, 2013 - 5:00am
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.
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March 22, 2013
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 4:49am
As 18- to 25-year-olds try to find their footing, they face the least access to health care, have the highest uninsured rate, and struggle with greater behavioral and non-behavioral health risks than either adolescents aged 12-17 or young adults aged 26-34.
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March 21, 2013
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 3:00am
Career opportunities available in broadcasting, print and new media for health writers.
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March 21, 2013
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 5:00am
When some youth journalists report on environmental health issues impacting their own communities, are they able to maintain neutrality or do they advocate for change?
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March 20, 2013
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