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‘No one can see you now’: What states are doing to boost primary care

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For 10 years until last spring, she was a health reporter at the Boston Globe, where the crisis in primary care was among the topics she covered. Now working independently, she has published articles in the Boston Globe Magazine and Harvard Public Health Magazine, as well as teaching journalism at Emerson College.

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4 ways to diversify your beat as a freelance health journalist

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And yet, one mentor considered my credentials a bit fluffy in part because I’d also written about sex and relationships for Women’s Health and Cosmopolitan. I wasn’t the go-to person on any niche medical or health policy topic, and I didn’t seem to have some specialty no other writer had.

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Contemplating Health Data Rights as Civil Rights

The Health Care Blog

If experiencing denial of care or preserving personal autonomy about participating in health websites are not sufficiently compelling issues, let’s get to the tougher stuff. This incredible group will be meeting again at the National Health Policy Conference in Washington DC April 4th and 5th. So what comes next? Simmons and Ms.

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“All Men Would Be Tyrants.” History Reverberates!

The Health Care Blog

In July, 1933, McCall’s magazine published one of hundreds of ads that year for contraceptive products. But in the end, most agreed that allowing women and their physicians to negotiate these highly personalized and individualized decisions by adjusting the state’s role to the reality of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd trimester made good sense.

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The (sort of, partial) Father mRNA Vaccines Who Now Spreads Vaccine Misinformation (Part 2)

The Health Care Blog

As with any big issue, once you fall into the gutter of comparing health policies with Nazi war crimes, you have indicated the sort of audience that you seek, and you have indicated that you don’t think that you have enough of a case relying just on the science.

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What RFK Jr. could do: Reporting on U.S. vaccine policy and the powers of the HHS Secretary

Association of Health Care Journalists

Shes an independent science/health journalist, author, speaker, and photographer. Her work has appeared in the National Geographic, Scientific American, Texas Monthly, Science News, Medscape/WebMD, The New York Times, Wired, and O Magazine, among others.

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My 22 Oldest Jokes and Why They Still Matter in 2022

The Health Care Blog

It so galvanized public opinion, according to Smithsonian Magazine: “By the end of 1997, Parliament had? As to why Americans can’t do Canadian-style healthcare: “I lived in Canada, I trained in health economics and health policy in Canada, my wife is Canadian, and most of my extended family live in Canada.