The latest investigation by California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting's Deborah Schoch will make you think twice before ripping into a sack of spring mix, but her work about the myriad food safety challenges posed by bagged salads examines the industry's struggle to develop technology powerful enough to overcome ...Anyone writing about older people with any seriousness will eventually confront the phenomenon known as "ageism."
The great gerontologist Dr. Robert Butler, the first director of the National Institute on Aging, coined this term in 1968 to refer to prejudice against older people fueled by stereotypes about aging that often lead ...Thanks to Gary Schwitzer for drawing attention to a study, published in BMJ, which analyzes the impact medical journal press releases have on actual press coverage of studies.
The authors begin with a somewhat gratifying hypothesis, writing that "Although it is easy to blame journalists for poor quality reporting, problems with ...
Building off a state health department report showing that, as The Morning Call's Tim Darragh wrote, "Nurses at St. Luke's Hospital three times in 2010 and 2011 improperly programmed patient-controlled pumps to deliver pain medication, causing patients to overdose themselves," Darragh dug deep into each incident, uncovering patient details and ...More than 30 attendees heard local experts sketch the particular challenges and issues presented by the Affordable Care Act in California in the latest "Implementing health reform in the states" panel, hosted by AHCJ's San Francisco Bay Area chapter on Wednesday night at the San Francisco Chronicle.
The panel, one of ...One of the best things about working at AHCJ is the chance to see the broad range of really strong coverage our members produce.
Whether I'm reading stories about the ways money influences how medicine is practiced, uncovering the mistreatment of vulnerable people, looking at how pollution is affecting public health ...KUOW's John Ryan used federal data and a few key sources to delve deep into issues surrounding one of the few remaining sources of airborne lead in the United States, a leaded aviation fuel known as "avgas." In the process, he reveals damage that even low levels of lead exposure ...Everything time we think prescription drug abuse stories have peaked, something comes along to push the story further. This time, InvestigateWest's Carol Smith sets herself apart by starting from square one and clearly explaining the origins and dimensions of Washington's particularly nasty drug issues, tracing back each facet of the ...Here's a recent story that touches on a whole lot of themes in health reform – without getting bogged down in a lot of jargon. Value-based purchasing. Evidence-based medicine. Shared decision-making.
Jackie Crosby of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune writes about how a Minnesota insurer, HealthPartners, has introduced a new approach for patients with low ...It's not easy to write well about the nitty-gritty details of aging – the wear and tear on bones and joints, the deterioration of seeing and hearing, the gradual onset of frailty in barely observable increments.
But everyone encounters this when they've lived long enough; physical decline is a fundamental part of ...
Nine people have died from an outbreak of swine flu in Mexico, with the number of cases almost doubling in a week.