At ProPublica, Joaquin Sapien tells the story of how Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter successfully obstructed the FDA's attempts to get formaldehyde, which has been linked to leukemia, as a known carcinogen. Right now, it's still listed as "probable." The industry's favorite tool, and the one Vitter employed for ...Writing for The New York Times, Laurie Udesky reports that despite significant rates of foreclosures, California nursing homes are not required to notify residents – many of whom require constant care – that they're being shuttered. She even found at least one home in which residents were caught by surprise ...Jessica Levco, of Ragan Communications, provides some insight into how at least one public relations professional is pitching health stories to reporters – and perhaps taking advantage of staffing shortages in newsrooms.
The article offers suggestions from Danielle Cass, the communications manager for Kaiser Permanente, that include creating videos, doing practice ...The Oregonian's Joe Rojas-Burke clearly has a keen eye for that special place at which jargon and cliché intersect, and his nifty health care glossary cuts right through it all to explain those terms like "bending the curve" and "diagnostic yield" that we've all heard so many times that they've ...
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We're in the process of compiling those reports, as well as photos and video from the conference. Visit our conference news page ...Personal anecdotes seem to seep into the blogs of just about every health care journalist out there; given the subject matter, it's inevitable that quite a few stories health journalists cover are going to hit home.
Now, Jaclyn Schiff, writing for Mediaite, has rounded up a recent rash of reports and ...Infusion pumps, a widely varied class of devices which typically mete out precise, time-delayed doses through IVs and related means, have been associated with 56,000 adverse events and more than 500 deaths in the past five years, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren told journalists assembled at Health Journalism 2010 this morning. Shuren ...On April 17, New York Times' op-ed columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a column about globalization, international competition and entrepreneurship. Here, as anyone who has even held a newspaper with his column in it will know, he's on all too familiar territory. It's not until he steps over into uncritical praise ...• Sebelius predicts ‘hand-to-hand combat’ on health law
• What did the U.S. learn from the H1N1 pandemic?
• Journalists encounter obstacles in identifying conflicts of interest in medical research
• Experts: Where you live affects your health
• Session focuses tracking health care costs ...Apart from the announcement of the FDA's infusion pump regulation push, the biggest appearances out of Health Journalism 2010 in Chicago this week have been U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Landon Hall, of ...