Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 8:00am
Newspapers outlets around the country are hiring for health reporter positions. Check them out here!
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April 11, 2013
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Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 4:00am
Aware that her children were ineligible for the state's health care program, Irina Flores-Montalban, 38, found herself facing a painful dilemma: choosing which of them to insure.
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April 11, 2013
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 10:30am
A new report says suspension rates in U.S. middle and high schools are hitting all-time highs. That's particularly troubling news given the research linking education and health.
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April 10, 2013
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 4:00am
The state insurance exchanges are some of the biggest health care stories waiting to be told. But their daunting complexity means reporters could use some help in making sense of it all. Here are some key questions to keep in mind.
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April 09, 2013
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 3:22am
Researching, writing and submitting papers to medical journals--and reworking and finessing them if accepted--is a demanding, time consuming job which drug companies have made into pay dirt.
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April 09, 2013
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Monday, April 8, 2013 - 8:13pm
An exasperating series of convictions and exonerations has reminded me both how big a price child-care providers are paying in the child-abuse arena and how hard it is to pin down the facts about shaken baby syndrome....
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April 08, 2013
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Monday, April 8, 2013 - 5:00am
Haiti is like a mix-master for our emotions. We are thrilled to be here and feel we helped make this camp possible and so potentially transformative for these kids. But no matter what we do, the kid’s diabetes control is still so incredibly poor.
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April 08, 2013
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Monday, April 8, 2013 - 4:00am
The question-mark headline is one way publications evoke claims that might not be supported by the evidence. Consider the alarmist reporting on studies that claimed post-tsunami nuclear fallout from Japan has sickened U.S. babies.
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April 08, 2013
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Friday, April 5, 2013 - 5:00am
Here’s how journalism should work. When the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) met with resistance to find out about health-care-associated infections in the country’s hospitals, it persisted.
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April 05, 2013
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Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 6:00am
Intern for the CDC, edit at a leading university or check out more opportunities from our weekly listings.
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April 04, 2013
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Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 5:00am
In many ways, diabetic children in Haiti seem just like other children around the world facing this disease. Then, they talk about not being able to get to the doctor, or not having all the medicine they need, and they distinguish themselves as being different from most others across the globe.
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April 04, 2013
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Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 4:00am
The message must be delivered and the knowledge put forth. If it does not happen, stupid mistakes will be made that will compromise the safety of not just one person but all those who are in their company on the day the abuser learns of the target's whereabouts.
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April 04, 2013
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 5:00am
When the 43 campers first arrived, they sat patiently in their chairs for over 45 minutes while we assessed their diabetes and overall status. It was boring, but not one of them complained.
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April 03, 2013
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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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