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Health Challenges Faced by Midwestern Latino Communities: Lessons Learned from my Hunt Fellowship.

At Hoy we have a motto that we like to shoot for the moon and see how far we get....

Q&A with Maia Szalavitz, Part 2: Understanding Addiction Through Science — and Personal Experience

Maia Szalavitz offers blunt advice for folks covering addiction and drug use: "Think critically. Don't be the readers' nanny. You aren't there to send 'the right message.'"

Q&A with Maia Szalavitz: Going Beyond Victims and Pushers for Pain Stories

How many times do you see pain patients who aren’t addicted represented in stories about prescription painkillers? Maia Szalavitz weighs in.

A Hot List of Job Opportunities

From Adweek's annual Hot List, this week in Career GPS we look for health-related jobs in thriving media outlets.

How to "Rebuild" Wounded Soldiers

Today's Daily Briefing looks at the effects of America's wars here at home, a doctor fired after speaking up, a skeptical look at open access journals and data on U.S. health care costs that you can play with.

Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: NY Media Seek Health Journalists

This week: The Healthy Living section of the Huffington Post seeks a Health News Editor. Also highlighted are opportunities at various online outlets. And as always, we've included the most updated information on upcoming grants, fellowships and educational opportunities.

Is blogging good for your career?

Blogging regularly can be very satisfying and give you a chance to connect directly with readers.  But is it good for your career? The New England Science Writers hosted a panel of science bloggers at the Harvard Faculty Club in January and MIT Tech TV is hosting a video of the event. The speakers will be familiar to the ReportingonHealth community and all have very interesting things to say about their blogging lives. This week at Career GPS, we explore how blogging has affected the careers of these science writers.

My First Cigarette

I received my first cigarettes around the time I got my first iron, stove, and refrigerator. This was the sixties, and the appliances were toys. The cigarettes were candy.

Looking back, I don't know what bothers me the most these days. The fact that I was being prepared for housework at such a young age, or that I was being prepared to smoke

AOL-Huffington Post Merger: What Will Happen to Health Journalism and Health Content?

Doctors and bloggers slam Huffington Post for wacky health theories, unhealthy journalism in wake of AOL merger, plus more from our Daily Briefing.

The 7 Social Media Habits of Highly Effective Health Reporters

“Social media is like flossing: you don’t have to like it, you just have to do it, every day.”

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