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Healthcare: Do Americans get too much--or too little

WebBy Trudy Lieberman, CJR. We’ve become accustomed of late to stories telling us we get too much healthcare. We get too much of the Three Ts—treatments, tests, and …

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How reporters can improve coverage of medical errors

WebHow reporters can improve coverage of medical errors Harvard School of Public Health's Dr. Ashish Jha discusses public awareness of patient safety

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Healthcare in Great Britain vs. healthcare in the USA: part …

WebBoth struggle with increasing costs of care; both have embarked on programs to make care better; both have instituted reforms that keep within the boundaries of their …

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James Hamblin: A fresh perspective for health journalism

WebJames Hamblin keeps getting compared to Doogie Howser. Sure, The Atlantic’s senior editor and health columnist came to the gig with bona fide expertise: he …

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Medicare Vouchers Explained

WebHA: Suppose that Medicare costs $100 when the new program begins, and that Congress sets the value of the voucher at $100 and ties the future value to a formula …

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A reporting collaborative takes on a California health plague

WebA little more than a month ago, The New York Times came forth with a story describing how a dangerous disease called valley fever is infecting thousands of people …

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Deep Health Care Problems under Rick Perry’s Watch

WebTrudy Lieberman is a longtime contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review.She is the lead writer for The Second Opinion, CJR's healthcare desk, which is …

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The Obamas and the Chicago Hospital Controversy

WebThe Republican attack machine hustled to forge a link between Obama’s public statements on health care reform and the Chicago dust-up. The McCain …

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Webster’s new dictionary means change for journalists

WebHere’s one biggie: “Healthcare” is now the only spelling listed for what AP and many others write as “health care.”. While the 2004 printing of the fourth edition …

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How Ray Suarez Really Caught the Global Health Bug

WebBut the actual reason is, following that conversation, Suarez wrote a proposal for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation resulting in $3.6 million of funding for NewsHour …

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Globe Kills Health/Science Section, Keeps Staff

WebIt is the end of an era that began more than twenty-five years ago, when test-tube babies and compact discs were new. This week, The Boston Globe stopped running …

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How Healthy Is Men's Health

WebThere is also health as we know it in Men’s Health, with the focus on helping guys be winners—eradicating belly fat in eight days flat, building “muscles that show,” finding a …

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An eye on environmental justice

WebA number of media reports in last year have examined the impacts of toxic pollution on communities, but few have emphasized, let alone focused on, the fact that …

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TV Medical Reporters

WebIn my own research, I have described ten troublesome trends in television health news. They are: brevity (average story length of 45 seconds); absence of reporter …

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Sick Around America

WebIt is not clear what message Frontline wanted to deliver in last night’s Sick Around America documentary. The show, conceived as a sequel to its acclaimed Sick …

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How the phantom of ‘socialized medicine’ came to be

WebThe goal of Campaign, Inc. was to put a “permanent stop to the agitation for socialized medicine in this country,” and one way of doing that was “simulating the …

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Why did CoOportunity fail

WebJust before Christmas, Iowa’s top insurance regulator announced he was taking control of CoOportunity Health, one of the 23 non-profit co-op health insurers …

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Hospital infections kill more people than car crashes. Here's how …

WebEbola has killed one person in the United States, but about 75,000 people die each year from infections they picked up in a hospital. As Dr. Peter Pronovost of Johns …

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March / April 2011 Table of Contents Columbia Journalism Reviews

WebFeature Unnecessary Secrets Opening government, from Ellsberg to Manning By Sanford J. Ungar Mar 10, 2011 at 10:00 AM. Back in 1999—simpler times, …

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Julia Pyper : Author Archive : Bios

WebDesks The Audit Business. Reuters’s OKC gusher Its outstanding Chesapeake Energy investigation turns toward the gas driller SandRidge ; Audit Notes: insider trading versus …

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