Monday, June 25, 2012 - 6:04am
Living With Sickle Cell Disease: The Struggle to Survive was a book I absolutely had to write. Prompting me to undertake such a daunting project was finally having had it with being treated as less than a person whenever I showed up at an emergency room.
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June 25, 2012
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Monday, June 25, 2012 - 5:00am
Why did University of California-Davis officials go after a professor who dared to criticize the university's support of prostate cancer screening?
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June 25, 2012
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Friday, June 22, 2012 - 5:00am
A hospital's willingness to open up its MRSA case files means we know more about preventing deaths from these serious infections.
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June 22, 2012
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Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 3:53pm
Featured this week is the 2012 USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program which is built around creating a next-generation reporting tool for arts journalism in the form of a 15-member pop-up newsroom called Engine30.
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June 21, 2012
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Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 7:57am
Cartoon animals selling drugs, insurance premiums to be paid back, drinking during pregnancy, antibiotic-free meat and more from our Daily Briefing.
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June 21, 2012
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Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 5:00am
Hydeia Broadbent, diagnosed with HIV at age 3, is a high-profile member of a new generation of young adults living with HIV/AIDS.
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June 21, 2012
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Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 5:00am
Much of the recent focus on patient safety can credited to the health journalists who pierced the veil of silence and raised public awareness of medical errors.
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June 21, 2012
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 2:00pm
What media really need to address in covering the looming Supreme Court decision on health reform is less about election-year politics and more about what it will mean for ordinary Americans.
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June 20, 2012
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 11:47am
As the world was engrossed in watching the Kony 2012 viral video, released by the invisible children depicting the atrocities of Joseph Kony in Northern Uganda, An Invisible disease called the Nodding disease was taking its toll on the people of Northern Uganda. Not many in the international media mentioned the nodding disease, even when it dep...
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June 20, 2012
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 7:31am
Projections for health care costs, a failure to curb prescription-drug abuse, medications for kids and more from our Daily Briefing.
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June 19, 2012
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 5:00am
Health care has changed radically in the last decade. Yet we're still using outdated statistics on medical errors. Why?
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June 19, 2012
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 5:00am
With expert help, we're digging deeper into Mitt Romney's specifics on how he would reform health care.
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June 19, 2012
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Friday, June 15, 2012 - 9:01am
Medicaid audit program, healthcare reform and small businesses, stress, Greece and environmental regulations.
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June 15, 2012
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Friday, June 15, 2012 - 5:00am
Patient activist Helen Haskell argues that we won't be able to prevent medical errors unless we get a better handle on just how many errors there are.
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June 15, 2012
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