Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Funding for your Mental Health Project
Reporters interested in exploring topics in mental health or illness stereotypes should check out The Carter Center's latest fellowship. Also listed are opportunities at Everyday Health and WebMD.
View ArticleHealth Media Jobs and Opportunities: Recognition for Socially-Conscious...
This week, we feature a monthly opportunity to be recognized for investigative stories that contribute to social awareness. Check out our new job and fellowship listings, too!
View ArticleAntibiotic Stewardship in the U.S. Woefully Weak, Experts At Global...
A confluence of factors including an inflexible regulatory enviroment that discourages research and discovery, a paltry research pipeline for drugs for the most serious illnesses, and a tendency for...
View ArticleNo, No, Norovirus: CDC Says Gastrointestinal Deaths Doubled in Recent Years
Gastrointestinal deaths are on the rise in the United States, and norovirus and c. difficile are partly to blame.
View ArticleHealth Media Jobs and Opportunities: Break Healthcare News in Tech-Speak
In addition to a new crop of editor and reporter listings across the country, we feature an opportunity for a dynamic tech blogger to cover the healthcare beat with personality. Also, check out the...
View ArticleHealth Media Jobs and Opportunities: Apply for a National Health Journalism...
Deadlines are fast approaching for this year's National Health Journalism Fellowship, Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism Grant and the inaugural Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health...
View ArticleHealth Media Jobs and Opportunities: Brief the Nation on Health Care News
This week, check out a handful of print openings at publications of various health disciplines. Also, keep an eye on upcoming deadlines for our 2012 fellowships and grants — these opportunities are not...
View ArticleHealth Media Jobs and Opportunities: Last Call for National Fellowship...
There are still a few days left to apply for this year's National Health Journalism Fellowship, Hunt Fund Grant and Packard Foundation Grant, and check out our health media job listings!
View ArticleCoachella for Health Writers: AHCJ 2012 Conference Will Rock Atlanta
Missed Coachella Live? Health journalists have their own version this week at the Association of Health Care Journalists Conference in Atlanta. Here's a preview.
View ArticlePolitical Campaign Database Could Kick Start Deeper Scrutiny of Health...
Why health journalists should dive deep into campaign finance data to scrutinize the health insurance-related votes of their legislators.
View ArticleHow We Do Harm: Otis Brawley's new book skewers 'gluttony' of over-diagnosis,...
In his eye-opening new book, Dr. Otis Brawley takes aim at doctors who prescribe too much, drug companies who promise too much, and the system that rewards them both with hefty incomes and sales.
View ArticlePublic Harassment on the Rise
"It feeds into a fear of rape and sexual violence and has a harmful effect on broader issues of equality" * * * "it has an impact on their self-esteem and body image" as well as a sense of safety and...
View ArticleThe Plot Thickens: Shaken Baby Syndrome on the BBC
Did the writers at "Silent Witness" know that their Helen Karamides character was such a close match for Dr. Waney Squier (except, of course, for the parts about the suicide, the alcoholism, and the...
View ArticleNodding Disease with hallmarks of Kony 2012
As the world was engrossed in watching the Kony 2012 viral video, released by the invisible children depicting the atrocities of Joseph Kony in Northern Uganda, An Invisible disease called the Nodding...
View ArticleThe Adverse Childhood Experiences Study -- the largest public health study...
"Adverse childhood experience" has become a buzzword in social services, public health, education, pediatrics and even business. Do you know your own ACE score?
View ArticleHIV Hot Spots in America
“HIV is the face of the forgotten people in this country,” Dr. Carlos Del Rio, an Atlanta-based AIDS expert, told me last February. Nevertheless, there continue to be "hot spots” where the disease...
View ArticleThe Story Behind the Story: Johanes Rosello Discusses her Series on Family...
Reporter Johanes Rosello discusses her series on family separation and the emotional and psychological suffering endured by children whose parents have been deported.
View ArticleHealth Media Jobs and Opportunities: Recognition for Socially-Conscious...
This week, we feature a monthly opportunity to be recognized for investigative stories that contribute to social awareness. Check out our new job and fellowship listings, too!
View ArticleHealth Media Jobs and Opportunities: Recognition for Socially-Conscious...
This week, we feature a monthly opportunity to be recognized for investigative stories that contribute to social awareness. Check out our new job and fellowship listings, too!
View ArticleAntibiotic Stewardship in the U.S. Woefully Weak, Experts At Global...
A confluence of factors including an inflexible regulatory enviroment that discourages research and discovery, a paltry research pipeline for drugs for the most serious illnesses, and a tendency for...
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