Topic: Health Care

Remembering Those Who Are Usually Forgotten
By Jane Daugherty

Views About Race Cloud Discussions About Disparities
‘Do these labels — “health disparities” and “the achievement gap" — create a more comfortable way for us to talk about contemporary impacts of race?’
By Martha Bebinger

As Health Care Gaps Grow, Coverage Shrinks
Stories about the have-nots don’t ‘fit into today's paradigm of health news.’
By Trudy Lieberman

Changing the Drumbeat of Typical Health Reporting
At HealthNewsReview.org ‘… we are on the lookout for those stories that include unsubstantiated claims made in the course of reporting about health.’
By Gary Schwitzer

Digging Through Data and Discovering a Profitable Handshake
The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team set out to determine why the state’s health care costs are so high and ended up revealing a hidden deal between powerful forces.
By Marcella Bombardieri and Scott Allen

A Water Trail of Antibiotics in India
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Toppling the ‘Big Three’—Medical Care, Behavior and Genes
‘Unnatural Causes’ mixes reporting of research rarely featured in traditional news coverage with visual storytelling in the hope of sparking a health equity movement.
By Madeline Drexler

Investigative Reporting on Medical Science: What Does It Take to Break Through the Commercial Spin?
‘… it is almost impossible to get the story right when the fundamentally commercial goals for which the study has been done are covered up with so much industry-sponsored expertise.’
By John Abramson