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Is Sugar to Blame for Our Chronic Disease Epidemics?

What if the real answer to runaway health care costs isn’t to be found in the legislative boxing rings of Washington, but rather in something as seemingly simple as curbing our sugar intake?

New Health Care Models Offer Alternative to Fee-for-Service Care

It’s too soon to say, but Accountable Care Organizations appear to be on the right side of several key health care trends. CareMore's Chief Medical Officer Ken Kim talks to the 2012 National Health Journalism Fellows.

When Reporting the Story Is Just the Beginning

Former National Health Journalism Fellow Kate Long suggests it takes much more than a Facebook update and fleeting volley of Tweets to turn a reporting project into a catalyst for meaningful change.

Despite Cutbacks, Ambitious Enterprise Reporting Isn’t Dead

For the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2011 was the year of infant mortality. An enterprise reporting project of impressive dimensions, the paper drilled down by zip code looking for the cause of high infant deaths rates and how they could be stemmed.

Education Is Key Predictor of Health Outcomes

If you could do one thing to ensure that you had a long, healthy life, what would you do? If you have less than a high school degree at 25, you can expect to live another 44 years, on average. Those with a graduate degree, however, can expect to live another 60 years, on average.

Gregory Warner Gets Creative with Health Care Stories

How can a reporter make those urgent stories on complicated health care topics feel urgent to the uninitiated? A compelling personal story isn't always enough to help the audience understand the deeper trend or causes. Sometimes the best solution is to find unusual sources or framing devices.

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What makes your community healthy or unhealthy? Use our step-by-step data reporting guide to uncover untold stories!

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