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Jessica Hamzelou, on the Importance of Covering Health Carefully

WebJessica Hamzelou, on the Importance of Covering Health Carefully. Jessica Hamzelou always wanted to be a science journalist. As an undergraduate in biomedical …

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How Amy Maxmen's Ebola Reporting Prepared Her To Cover a …

WebAmy Maxmen in a helicopter in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo while reporting on Ebola in July 2019. Image credit: John Wessels. From the …

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At Latest KSJ Webinar, Health, Medicine, and Covid-19 Take …

Web“With every story, there is a story not being told.” That observation from STAT health and tech reporter Erin Brodwin, made during the Knight Science Journalism …

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Isabella Cueto Awarded First Annual Sharon Begley-STAT Science

WebThe Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is providing $225,000 to support the first two years of the program, named in honor of Begley, an award-winning science writer for …

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Google’s next goal: The molecular map of perfect health

WebThe news sounded either promising or ominous depending on the spin. The Google research arm, Google X, is investigating health, or trying to define it, or even build the …

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Misinformation, Trust, and Personality in Journalism: A …

WebThe global health crisis elicited a haze of misleading and deceptive information, which, enabled largely by social media, metastasized across the world wide …

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U.S. healthcare-Is it the best in the world

Web"When Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi needed heart surgery, he didn't go to an Italian hospital…He had his surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio," Michael Tanner, a …

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KSJ and STAT Name 2023-24 Sharon Begley Science Reporting …

WebMIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program and STAT, the nation’s must-read health, science, and medicine publication, have announced Deborah Balthazar as the …

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Alumni Notes: Facing health fears, fresh stories on climate, and more

WebAlumni Notes: Facing health fears, fresh stories on climate, and more. In a pair of recent deep dives, KSJ alumni explored the harmful outcomes that can arise …

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Climate Change, Refrigeration, and an Invaluable Lesson in …

WebClimate Change, Refrigeration, and an Invaluable Lesson in Complexity An afternoon spent tinkering with a climate simulator gave journalist Nicola Twilley a new …

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Social Science in the Age of Coronavirus: An Interview With Sujata …

WebLately, Gupta has turned an eye toward the social inequalities being thrown into sharp relief by the coronavirus pandemic. She was one of the first reporters to write …

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Organic food: What question did the study ask

WebStanford University researchers are reporting today that they "did not find strong evidence that organic foods are more nutritious or carry fewer health risks than conventional …

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Health care journalists’ meeting: A winner

WebThe Milwaukee Journal Sentinel won top honors in the categories of health policy reporting and investigative reporting in large publications. The top three awards for …

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PsychCentral posts on Amen clinics neglect one thing: evidence.

WebAdults, teenagers, and small kids were all treated not just politely and humanely, but with genuine pleasure and warmth. That comes from the second of two guest posts by Shawn …

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Five Questions: Exploring the Transgender Experience in Latin …

WebKSJ: The report contained a figure we found startling: The average life expectancy of a transgender person in Latin America is just 35 to 41 years, compared …

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The Atlantic: How junk food can end obesity.

WebBut he did not even attempt to show how junk food could end obesity. And we shouldn't have expected it–we knew the headline was a pleasant little deception. In …

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Rod McCullom on contagious communication

WebRod McCullom has spent much of his journalistic career writing about charged topics like HIV. He has written extensively about the intersection between …

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Columbia Journalism Review: Personal-health journalism serves up …

WebIn a 4,000-word cover story in the Jan./Feb. 2013 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, David H. Freedman, a contributing editor at The Atlantic, offers us a …

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Finally, a smart analysis of whether children are being …

WebI work in the QI department of a Midwest-based health insurer. Last summer, we evaluated the rate of ADHD stimulant drug spending, based mostly on concerns from some …

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Announcing New Fellowship for Advancing Science Journalism in …

WebThe Knight Science Journalism Program, established at MIT in 1983, is the world’s leading science journalism fellowship program. More than 400 leading science …

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