Find Health Stories with Health Data Webinar on Wednesday
We are surrounded by data but aren't always harnessing its storytelling potential as effectively as we could be. A free webinar this week will help attendees learn how to better use data to tell more...
View ArticleVulcan Medicine: How Better Records Led to Better Diabetes Care
Electronic health records can give doctors a more well-rounded picture of their patients that has the potential for improved care and outcomes.
View ArticleSlap: Kentucky Court Case Could Slam Door on Patient Safety Information
Amidst the discussion about email and cellphone traffic being collected by U.S. intelligence agencies, free speech enthusiasts may also want to pay attention to the unfolding legal case involving the...
View ArticleSlap: University Fighting Access to Patient Safety Records on All Fronts
The two cases involving the University of Kentucky challenge the heart of public records and free speech, and they could help define how courts interpret the still mostly untested federal Patient...
View ArticleEcological Anxiety: How Far Does Seattle Park's Radiation Contamination Reach?
The answers, thus far, from state and federal officials have been unsatisfactory. In part because the radiation threat dates back to the 1940s, the uncertainty around it isn’t entirely the fault of the...
View ArticleEcological Anxiety: Radiation Can Harm Drip by Drip Or With One Big Blast
Parents whose children regularly play at Magnuson Park in Seattle are concerned about cumulative radiation exposure. Free floating radium could quickly expose a child who frequents the park to the...
View ArticleThe Shadow Practice: A Physician’s Problems Can Often Start at Home
According to Medical Board of California records, a doctor under investigation for other professional infractions, ultimately got in trouble for prescribing his wife with addictive drugs. Still they...
View ArticleMystery Disease: Self-Diagnosis Leads to More Anxiety Than Relief
While away on a business trip, I woke up at least every 15 minutes in the hotel room coughing so forcefully that I was having convulsions. My body was drenched in sweat, and my mind started racing...
View ArticleMystery Disease: Doctor Takes Best Guess, Brings Out Big Guns
If the doctor wasn't careful, she explained, she could tear up the inside of my nose with the swab designed used to test for one of the diseases that might be causing my violent coughs. Almost a month...
View ArticleMystery Disease: Tests for Whooping Cough Are Expensive and Slow
Certainty is often unattainable in medical care. It’s something my friends who are physicians and scientists live and breathe every day, but patients expect certainty from science.
View ArticleMaking a Difference – Together: A Reporting Collaborative Earns a CJR “Laurel”
The sustained fire power and reach of seven news outlets – combined with community outreach efforts – have yielded results as we approach the one-year anniversary of the new Reporting on Health...
View ArticleNew Family Trees: Lessons from the Donor Sibling Registry's First Decade
Prompted by her experience as the mother of a son conceived with the help of a sperm donor, Wendy Kramer created an online, voluntary registry system for children of egg and sperm donors. What's she...
View ArticleOnly an Accident: Fatal Colonoscopy Leaves Family Stunned and Unpaid
Duane Middleton died at the age of 54, from complications following a colonoscopy. Such complications are exceedingly rare. Where then does that leave his family?
View ArticleWhat Are the True Addiction Risks of Pain Medicine?
Reporting on Health Contributing Editor William Heisel set off a spirited discussion this week on Twitter on the risk of addiction to opioid pain medicine. What are the implications for chronic pain...
View ArticleNurse Shares 40+ Years of Experience with Hospital Hygiene
Whether it is wearing scrubs outside of the health care setting, hand washing or the regular use of gloves in patient interactions, hospital hygiene has changed in the last few decades -- and not...
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