AHCJ is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing public understanding of health care issues.
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Scott Hensley, on NPR's newly christened "Shots" health blog, points us to a five-year study of men who work in Chinese factories that make bisphenol A or use it to make other products. Photo by How can I recycle this via Flickr The study found that "Men exposed to high levels of ...
Jeffrey Weiss of The Dallas Morning News reports that he was able, via an open records request, to get a full list of organizations in Texas that have requested H1N1 vaccines, as well as list of all shipments ordered. The list doesn't include any public health departments, and is led ...
Writing for The New York Times, AHCJ member Sibyl Shalo Wilmont shares the chain of events that followed when she accidentally injected herself with a drop of a patient's blood. Photo by hitthatswitch via Flickr...
Heath Meriwether of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism's Write Stuff blog interviewed AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman about her transition from print outlets (including the Detroit Free Press and Consumer Reports) to blogging on cjr.org...
Voice of San Diego's Randy Dotinga explains exactly how the fear of H1N1 has transformed every step of the health care delivery process in the Southern California city, which has been hit particularly hard by the virus. Dotinga focuses on how paramedics' routines have changed...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter John Fauber reports that conflicts of interest that local researchers disclosed to the university were not always disclosed when those researchers' work was published. Photo by gregsmyth via Flickr...
In a special report titled "Big Pharma's Crime Spree," David Evans of Bloomberg Markets writes that pharmaceutical companies continue to promote drugs for uses not approved by the FDA, despite paying billions of dollars in fines and penalties. Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S...
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Drawing on AHCJ's Aging in the 21st Century workshop, New America Media's Paul Kleyman writes on health care reform's failure to adequately address long-term care for the nation's elderly...
In a tale of alleged fraud and political access, Dan Christensen of the Broward Bulldog in South Florida (and no relation to this blog post's author), writes about cardiologist Zachariah P...
AHCJ offers resourcesto help journalists cover the wide range of health topics, including those surrounding the military, veterans and post-traumatic stress disorder...
Joe Eaton of the Center for Public Integrity and Christine Spolar of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund look into how the threat of a tax on sugary drinks has mobilized major food interests and millions of dollars of lobbying power. Thanks in part to the limited earning potential of a ...
Writing for content, document and knowledge management publication KMWorld, David Raths evaluates applications of health information technology, or HIT, in a set of case studies which he wraps up into a handy overview of the utility and potential of HIT and electronic medical records...
Antidote's William Heisel recommends that journalists looking to dive deeper in H1N1 issues pull out their test tubes, put on their lab coats and perform a few original acts of science. In particular, Heisel focuses on possible tests of the link between H1N1 and swine. In that spirit, he adds a .....
Photo by jayKayEss via Flickr. Olga Pierce, one of the keepers of ProPublica's Eye on Health Care Reform page, is starting a series on how health care reform will specifically affect certain groups of people. Her first installment considers the plight of the uninsured and unemployed...
