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Left out: immigrants and health-care reform

Undocumented immigrants and lawfully present immigrants who’ve been here less than five years are the largest group excluded from health-care reform.  They are not eligible to purchase insurance through the state exchanges and will continue to be excluded from Medicaid....

Debunking Children's Health News: Q&A with Momma Data Blogger Polly Palumbo

Psychologist and mom Polly Palumbo didn't just get mad when she read irresponsible media coverage of children's health issues — she started debunking it in her blog, Momma Data.

A Tale of 2 G-Spots

Most of the media missed the genetic glitch in the latest search for the elusive G-spot. An update to the version published in Scientific American blogs, April 25, 2012.

Reporting on unnecessary cancer screenings

I just posted the story that I wrote for The Center for Public Integrity, which focuses on how much money Medicare spends on unnecessary cancer screenings. It was a fascinating reporting journey and one that you may be able to partially replicate, as the debate heats up about the necessity of prostate cancer screening tests.

Blow Out Your Candle, Retraction Watch, and Get Back to Work!

Thanks to the influential science blog Retraction Watch, when a paper gets pulled, the world hears about it. Here are my favorite Retraction Watch contributions to medical research and health reporting.

Flying fake cardiologist's publications start to crash, taking co-pilots down too

The charade perpetrated by William Hamman, the United Airlines pilot who had a second, lucrative career as a fake cardiologist, is starting to have consequences.

Ann Moss Joyner

Ann Moss Joyner is president of the Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, a nonprofit organization based in Mebane, North Carolina that provides research and mapping services in cases involving civil rights, predatory lending and institutional discrimination. Ms. Joyner is the co-author of numerous scholarly publications on using geographic information systems to expose exclusionary zoning and annexation practices. She has a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from New College and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina.

May Day: Connect Health and Social Justice to the Environment

If you are anticipating covering Southern California's inevitable weather stories this summer -- heat waves, water shortages, wildfires -- consider this: These narratives are health, environment, public policy and economic stories all in one.

CalWORKs Toughens Up Sanctions in 2011

Say hello to the new, improved CalWORKs on July 1, 2011.

Genetic Privacy and Long Term Care: What Happened in California?

A loophole in California law means that insurers could require you to take a genetic test to qualify for long-term care insurance – and potentially deny coverage based on the results.

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