AHCJ member Michael Berens and Ken Armstrong, reporters at The Seattle Times, received the 2012 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting for a three-part series called "Methadone and the Politics of Pain."
The University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism awards the $35,000 prize every year for investigative ...Dementia is a harrowing illness. Mix it with life in prison and you get a truly alarming situation.
Pam Belluck of The New York Times opened our eyes to the issue last week in a sobering piece about aging prisoners with serious memory problems, which are often unrecognized and undiagnosed.
Judith Graham ...
On Forbes.com, Gergana Koleva digs deep into the ongoing court battle between Regenerative Sciences and the FDA over the question of whether stem cells "should be federally regulated as drugs." While the treatment at issue isn't generally a matter of life or death, the courts' decisions in this case will ...Paula Span of The New York Times clearly struck a nerve with her recent story about an upscale retirement community's decision to exclude certain residents from its country-club style dining room.
The residents in question lived in assisted living apartments or a nursing home that are part of the Norfolk, Va., ...Members of AHCJ have been busy! Here's the latest update on our members who have won awards, taken new jobs and have other news of interest.
Beryl Lieff Benderly is this year's winner of the IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering the Public Understanding of the Profession (of engineering) for ...
In the latest installment of his ongoing investigation for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today, John Fauber looks for the source of America's prescription painkiller boom (graphic), outlining what he describes as "a network of pain organizations, doctors and researchers that pushed for expanded use of the drugs while ...AHCJ member Christina Jewett, a reporter at California Watch, was honored alongside her colleagues, Lance Williams and Steven K. Doig, with the George Polk Award in Medical Reporting for her work on "Decoding Prime," a yearlong investigative series that exposed how a California-based hospital chain billed Medicare for rare conditions and ...The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should create an easily usable and searchable database when it publishes information from drug and device makers about payments to physicians, according to comments (PDF) submitted by the Association of Health Care Journalists on proposed rules for carrying out the Physician Payment ...
National Guardsmen and reservists returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan "have been hastily channeled through a post-deployment process that has been plagued with difficulties, including reliance on self-reporting to identify health problems," according to an investigation by graduate students in Northwestern University's Medill School.
Photo by The National Guard via ...Most of us know that in 2014, states will open health insurance exchanges (or the federal government will run a backup exchange for them) But actually states are running two exchanges – one for individuals and one for small businesses, known as Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) exchanges.
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