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Erdely wins for story of bone marrow donation
AHCJ member Sabrina Rubin Erdely won a 2010 Clarion Award [press release] from the Association for Women in Communications for her piece in Self magazine about bone marrow donation. The award also cites AHCJ member Sara Austin, who is the magazines features director, news and health. The story, of a bone ...
School lunches, obesity and causality
Miller-McCune magazine's Washington correspondent Emily Badger explains how a study found that the National School Lunch program is linked to youth obesity. Photo by bookgrl via Flickr Badger takes great pains to put that finding into context, and doesn't put forth the key causal relationship until the tenth paragraph. In the interim, ...
How HHS can improve data infrastructure
Better data means better public health. That's the message put forth in a new commentary piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and one which we can all get behind. The authors praise HHS for the progress it has made toward data access thus far, and then push ...
New guide focuses on covering medical studies
Reporters are inundated with lures to cover the latest medical study or scientific conference paper. And there are some significant milestones being reached in medical research. But, more often, the information reaching the public is way too preliminary or even misleading, say those producing a new ...
Welcome to these new AHCJ members
These journalists have joined AHCJ recently: Lesley Bennett, independent journalist; Stamford, Conn. Tim Casey, associate managing editor, First Report Managed Care; Millstone Township, N.J. Alan Cassels, independent journalist; Victoria, British Columbia (@AKECassels) Michelle Cerulli, journalism graduate student, UNC-Chapel Hill; Carrboro, N.C. (@cerulli_m) Dawn Davis, writer, Caribbean Today; Lauderdale Lakes, Fla. Jodie Jackson, reporter, Columbia Daily Tribune; ...