Saturday, March 16, 2013 - 8:16am
Like adults, children are suffering from "middle-age spread" -- too many calories and not enough exercise. And like adults, they are taking pills to accommodate the conditions instead of making lifestyle changes.
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March 16, 2013
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Friday, March 15, 2013 - 7:34am
Most journalists aren't venturing into Latino communities to get the story of Herbalife's aggressive sales techniques. They're missing a great tale, but a Latino high school student didn't.
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March 15, 2013
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 11:24pm
In some countries in Africa, the use of social media is helping putting women in charge and reducing violence against women.
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March 14, 2013
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 3:09pm
A grieving father set out to create a system that might prevent other lives from being lost at the hands of a drug-dazed driver. Ten years later, he's still waiting for the system he created to be fully realized.
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March 14, 2013
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 1:20pm
A veteran public radio reporter always thought of himself as a TV hater -- until he was asked to do some TV stories.
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March 14, 2013
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 6:00am
Looking for a health editor position? Opportunities across the country are opening up.
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March 14, 2013
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 6:49am
Was that glass of milk you drank this morning safe? Government reports show that high levels of antibiotics and other drugs are common in dairy animals and their products. Worse, milk producers resist further testing lest their products be found unsafe.
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March 13, 2013
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Monday, March 11, 2013 - 9:35pm
What does it take for a doctor to lose his license to practice permanently? A patient dead from "therapeutic misadventure?" A formal finding of unprofessional conduct? Advanced age? Maybe not.
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March 11, 2013
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Monday, March 11, 2013 - 8:10am
It’s a Medicare reform idea that seems pretty straightforward, and for proponents on both sides of the political aisle, a fair-minded approach to solving the entitlement program’s funding woes -- make more financially well-heeled Medicare beneficiaries foot more of the bill for their care....
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March 11, 2013
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Friday, March 8, 2013 - 5:00am
Headed to the Association of Health Care Journalists annual conference this week in Boston? Whatever sessions you attend, have a great time, take lots of notes, and use the experience as inspiration for even better journalism.
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March 08, 2013
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Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 9:14am
An editor for the BMJ blogged about "How medical journals can help stop disease-mongering." And one of her ideas was a quarantine for "groundbreaking studies about new treatments."
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March 07, 2013
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Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 6:00am
ReportingOnHealth.org is currently accepting applications for our 2013 National Health Journalism Fellowship and Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism.
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March 07, 2013
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Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 5:00am
Just how well is California doing transitioning children from the outgoing Healthy Families low-cost health insurance program to Medi-Cal? The state's version of its progress is rosier than what children's health advocates are seeing on the ground.
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March 07, 2013
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 1:14pm
The most common inherited form of intellectual disability and autism, Fragile X Syndrome still isn't familiar enough to the general public -- or to pediatricians -- says one Southern California doctor. He urges all parents of children with autism to have them tested.
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March 06, 2013
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