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Jessica Hamzelou, on the Importance of Covering Health Carefully

WEBJessica Hamzelou, on the Importance of Covering Health Carefully. Graphic includes original headshot of Jessica Hamzelou by Leise Jones. Jessica Hamzelou …

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At Latest KSJ Webinar, Health, Medicine, and Covid-19 Take …

WEBFrom health care mergers to the deployment of health care algorithms, she said, there’s always an “overstory” — the rosy narrative found in press releases — and …

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'Don't Go With the Pack': Usha Lee McFarling, on …

WEBIn the months since, McFarling says, she has come to see more clearly the underlying ways race and medicine interact in this country to produce deep inequities. A new beat blossomed for her. She went …

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Alumni Notes: Facing health fears, fresh stories on climate, and more

WEBAlumni Notes: Facing health fears, fresh stories on climate, and more. In a pair of recent deep dives, KSJ alumni explored the harmful outcomes that can arise …

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Finally, a smart analysis of whether children are being …

WEBI work in the QI department of a Midwest-based health insurer. Last summer, we evaluated the rate of ADHD stimulant drug spending, based mostly on concerns from some …

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How Amy Maxmen's Ebola Reporting Prepared Her To …

WEBIn 2014 and 2015, she reported on the world’s largest Ebola outbreak from Sierra Leone. And in 2019, she traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to cover Ebola again. In both countries, …

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Google’s next goal: The molecular map of perfect health

WEBThe news sounded either promising or ominous depending on the spin. The Google research arm, Google X, is investigating health, or trying to define it, or even build the …

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Exec’s throat cancer: What it might mean for the rest of us.

WEBTwo years ago, I wrote about a 50-year-old biotech CEO who also had HPV throat cancer. Last year, the actor Michael Douglas said that his throat cancer was caused by HPV. …

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The Atlantic: How junk food can end obesity.

WEBHealth journalism, then, is largely based on a principle of survival of the wrongest." Freedman made clear that we were lucky to find him–the one journalist who …

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U.S. healthcare-Is it the best in the world

WEBIn March, Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Alaska Republican, said "Obamacare is destroying the 'greatest health care system the world has ever known.'" During the last presidential …

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PsychCentral posts on Amen clinics neglect one thing: evidence.

WEBPsychCentral describes itself as “today’s modern voice for mental health information, emotional support, and advocacy.” It proudly notes that it acts as an advocate on behalf …

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Knight Science Journalism and STAT Launch New Sharon Begley …

WEBThe Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT and STAT, the award-winning Boston-based health, science, and medicine publication, announced today a new …

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Misinformation, Trust, and Personality in Journalism: A …

WEBThe global health crisis elicited a haze of misleading and deceptive information, which, enabled largely by social media, metastasized across the world wide …

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Organic food: What question did the study ask

WEBStanford University researchers are reporting today that they "did not find strong evidence that organic foods are more nutritious or carry fewer health risks than conventional …

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KSJ and STAT Name 2023-24 Sharon Begley Science Reporting …

WEBMIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program and STAT, the nation’s must-read health, science, and medicine publication, have announced Deborah Balthazar as the …

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The New Yorker's new "health care hub."

WEBThe New Yorker’s new “health care hub.”. Nicholas Thompson, the editor of NewYorker.com and a co-founder of The Atavist, has just tweeted news of the creation …

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Health care journalists' meeting: A winner

WEBFormer President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter kicked things off with a report on the health-care work the Carter Center is doing in Africa, including …

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Climate Change, Refrigeration, and an Invaluable Lesson in …

WEBClimate Change, Refrigeration, and an Invaluable Lesson in Complexity An afternoon spent tinkering with a climate simulator gave journalist Nicola Twilley a new …

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Author Lydia Denworth Makes a Scientific Case for Friendship

WEBA 1988 meta-analysis of six long-term studies found that loneliness was as damaging to subjects’ health as smoking. Friendship, Denworth said, is “a matter of life …

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Columbia Journalism Review: Personal-health journalism serves up …

WEBIn a 4,000-word cover story in the Jan./Feb. 2013 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, David H. Freedman, a contributing editor at The Atlantic, offers us a …

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BuzzFeed News hires Virginia Hughes to set up new five-person …

WEBVirginia Hughes, a contributing editor at Popular Science and Matter and the author of the Only Human blog at National Geographic, has been named science editor at BuzzFeed …

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When the Jets Fly

WEBThe conflict between community health concerns and the growing demands of the U.S. military are playing out all over the country. Madison, Wisconsin, is on …

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