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10 Health Journalism Tips from Veteran Health Writer Pat Anstett

As Patricia Anstett retires after 30 years at the Detroit Free Press, she shares key lessons from her years of medical reporting.

Just One Breath: Five Tips for Writing about Health Costs

Reporters investigating the impact of valley fever in California dug up striking information about the disease's financial costs to taxpayers. Here's how they did it.

Autism: Getting the Science Right in Op-Eds

A noted scientist examines shaky science in a New York Times op-ed about autism. Do science and scientific arguments have a place in op-eds at all?

Cool Tools: Mapping HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Other Diseases in Your Community

A just-about-ready-for-prime-time interactive atlas from the CDC can be a great resource for your work.

Everybody Hurts: Chronic Pain Is In the Body of the Sufferer

When I started writing about questionable pain statistics, a weightlifting friend asked: “What is chronic pain defined as?” That depends on whom you ask.

A Public Death: Get to Know the People in Vital Records

How do you get access to death records? Leave your desk, for starters.

Surprised by Detail: Interviewing Seniors

With its many intimate subjects--poverty, abuse, homelessness--this series has made me a more honest reporter.

Talk to Us! Health Journalism from a Patient's Perspective

How can journalists work better with patients to tell their stories? Here's advice from one experienced patient.

Healthcare Hashtags: Monitoring Health Conversations in the Twitterverse

How do you sort through the cacophony of health conversations taking place on Twitter? Healthcare hashtags can help.

Story Ideas from the AHCJ 2012 Health Journalism Conference

From nocturnists to Medicaid babies, a sampling of story ideas from the 2012 AHCJ health journalism conference in Atlanta.

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