TOPICS IN HEALTH
by Stephan Faris
Late in the summer of 2007, residents of Castiglione di Cervia, Italy, began coming down with symptoms unusual...more_»
by Jon Cohen
Conflict drives the most compelling stories, and HIV/AIDS has conflict at every turn. Conflict ranges...more_»
by Emily Schmidt
The first time anyone heard Yvette Cade’s story, it went something like this, courtesy of a one-sentence...more_»
by Sheila Himmel
As a longtime newspaper editor and reporter, I loved conflict and irony. And when the story pitted a parent...more_»
by Lisa Girion
It started on March 20, 2006, with what I thought was a one-shot story about the health care language gap. Two...more_»
by Josh Goldstein
Follow the money. That simple phrase – though never uttered by Bob Woodward’s most famous source – has...more_»
by Alice Chen, M.D.
Imagine if your doctor asked your 12-year-old son to explain to you that you had just been diagnosed with...more_»
by Victor Merina
Brian Bull recalls the first story he filed for South Dakota Public Radio. The young reporter spent a day with...more_»
by Don Finley
I began covering medicine in 1987 when AIDS was the biggest and most compelling national health story out...more_»
by Kevin Fagan
Not many reporters want to write about homeless people – and not many editors want to read about them. The...more_»
by Barbara Feder Ostrov, Deputy Editor, ReportingonHealth
Here's a recap of the latest developments on the health reform front, along with some helpful resources and...more_»
by Eric Eyre
Debbie Crites had a secret.When Crites visited the dental clinic in Fort Gay, West Virginia in the winter of...more_»
by Jane E. Allen
As a veteran reporter whose first thought when approaching scientific, medical and health claims is to ask...more_»
by Jeanne Lenzer
Everybody knows that manufacturers of everything from cornflakes to cars pay screenwriters and producers...more_»
by Mike Swift
My odyssey into the world of tuberculosis began with a simple remark by a well-connected friend in the summer...more_»
by Barbara Feder Ostrov, Deputy Editor, ReportingonHealth
Although scientists and public health officials have long worried that an avian flu virus would spark the...more_»
by Jane E. Allen
When several infectious disease doctors tipped me off about an outbreak of aggressive skin infections among...more_»
by Patricia Thomas
The Jackson County school nurses savor their monthly lunch meeting at the Crawford W. Long Pharmacy, a fixture...more_»
by Deborah L. Shelton
Probably every health reporter in the country has been asked at one time or another to write a story about...more_»
CRAFT
by Laurie Udesky
When I began interviewing 17-year-old “Cindy,” she was reading a mystery while answering my questions....more_»
by David Herzog
John Snow had the right idea more than 150 years ago as he investigated the cause of a cholera epidemic in...more_»
by Lauran Neergaard
Covering medical research is a lot like panning for gold. There's a lot to wade through before you're sure you...more_»
by Lisa Aliferis
I’ve worked in television news as a producer for 20 years, and I’ve found that it surprises my print...more_»
by Tom Hallman Jr.
I arrived in the hospital's neo-natal intensive care unit that night just after 7 p.m. I found a chair where I...more_»
by D'Vera Cohn
There’s hardly a health story out there that cannot benefit from some good data – from estimates of the...more_»
