Monday, July 9, 2012 - 1:05am
Arguably the most unexpected aspect of the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act decision was its reversal of the mandatory expansion of Medicaid. Martha King of the National Conference of State Legislatures provides some tips on how to track this unfolding landscape.
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July 09, 2012
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Monday, July 9, 2012 - 1:00am
Interested in the latest research on antibiotic resistance and infectious diseases? Good news: The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) has a wealth of online resources to offer health reporters who would like to learn more about these topics.
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July 09, 2012
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Sunday, July 8, 2012 - 10:21pm
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
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July 08, 2012
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Sunday, July 8, 2012 - 8:58pm
Candida KingBird, 38, has lived a decade with diabetes and has five children, the last of whom nearly died from problems related to the disease after a cesarean section. The fourth part of my series on health disparities affecting Native Americans in Portland, Ore., tracks her journey through a difficulty, risky sixth pregnancy.
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July 08, 2012
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Sunday, July 8, 2012 - 8:01am
I wanted to help my readers understand where the health reform law's Prevention Fund dollars were actually headed and then let them draw their own judgments about the value of those investments.
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July 08, 2012
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Friday, July 6, 2012 - 4:55pm
The Shape We’re In, Dennis Hunt fellowship project on West Virginia's obesity rates, was published following the philosophy of "sustainable outrage".
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July 06, 2012
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Friday, July 6, 2012 - 3:43pm
From the start, I decided I would take as much time as I possibly could – that is the whole year – to complete my project on health disparities affecting Native Americans in the Portland area. I wanted to learn as much as I possibly could not only about Native health, but also about Native cultures.
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July 06, 2012
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Friday, July 6, 2012 - 7:40am
Mystery illness in Cambodia, hepatitis C in New Hampshire, the economic effect of expanding Medicaid and more from our Daily Briefing.
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July 06, 2012
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Friday, July 6, 2012 - 1:05am
The Bakersfield Californian recently took on one of the most ambitious health care quality projects I have seen attempted by an outlet outside of the really big markets. One reporter, Kellie Schmitt, wanted to answer two questions: whether most of the doctors in Kern County were from another country and whether that mattered.
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July 06, 2012
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Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 2:35pm
ICF International needs a Scientific Writer/Editor to support a 7-year project focused on monitoring and evaluating the CDC's Community Transformation Grant, an initiative focused on obesity prevention, cardiovascular disease, and tobacco control at the state and community level.
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July 05, 2012
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Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 9:23am
At Hoy we have a motto that we like to shoot for the moon and see how far we get....
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July 05, 2012
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Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 8:29am
Cannabis in Israel, zoonosis, trends in insurance and more from our Daily Briefing.
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July 05, 2012
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Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 1:05am
Michael Felberbaum covered business for the Associated Press in Richmond, Va., as one of his biggest subject matters -- Circuit City -- went under. When the Richmond-based company declared bankruptcy in 2007, Felberbaum began looking more closely at the tobacco industry.
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July 05, 2012
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