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Pennsylvania Fracking Chemical Disclosure Law Muzzles State’s Doctors

A doctors' gag order over fracking chemicals, good news on obesity prevention, and a rapping global health expert turned World Bank leader, plus more from our Top 5 Today.

Drugstores: Selling Prescription Information to Big Pharma?

Is your drugstore selling your prescription information to the pharma industry? Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.

So you're on Twitter and Facebook? What next?

The Reynolds Center for Business Journalism offered three seminars on social media this week. I won't do another post on the virtues and anxieties and the basics of using social media. Instead, I’ll focus on using social media to be a better reporter.

Flushing Forests

In an effort to promote awareness of the relationship between healthy forests, healthy people and healthy economies, The UN has declared 2011 the International Year of Forests. One overlooked reality links healthy forests, healthy people and improved global sanitation: the production and use of toilet paper, from forest to flush.

 

The Million Dollar (Homeless) Patient

Angelo Solis, a homeless alcoholic, racked up nearly $1 million in medical charges over three years. His case represents the immense health care costs associated with homelessness. Sarah Arnquist offers advice on how to report on this important topic.

Zingers, quotes, anecdotes and other things that make your writing great

When we think about how to get eyeballs on our reporting these days, we talk a lot about Twitter and Facebook and online branding. Tracy Weber, senior reporter at ProPublica, took California Health Journalism Fellows back to the basics of getting and keeping readers: great writing.

State medical boards leave patients in danger and in the dark

Medical boards from coast to coast are inconsistent, inefficient and ill equipped to monitor the hundreds of thousands of doctors licensed under their watch, Antidote’s investigation of every state board has found. There are some standouts, but, overall, they do a terrible job protecting patients and informing the public.

It bears repeating that most doctors do a great job and are focused on one thing: helping their patients heal and lead healthier lives. The mission of this tour was to explore what happens to that minority of doctors who don’t follow the rules.

Pennsylvania medical board fails to reveal doc's criminal steroid dealing

Medicine is one of the few professions where a person can commit a crime by failing to do something.

Dr. Charles F. Connors was convicted in 2001 of four counts of "Failure to Professionally Administer or Deliver Controlled Substances" in violation of state law. And for that the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine suspended his license.

An Experiment in Funding: The L.A. Toxic Tour

Newsdesk and Spot.us are organizations intent on giving journalists financial support for in-depth reporting as mainstream media continues to shrink. They are seeking proposals for their "Los Angeles Toxic Tour," stories that will be told in text and multimedia to highlight environmental concerns in this sprawling city.

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