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Health and Science Reporting

WebThe global healthcare climate footprint is huge, but in the science journalism class Yara El Murr ’20 wrote about emerging solutions, a story she then sold to The Guardian.; In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Sophie Putka, ’20, learned that ants–which, like us, are social animals–instinctively adopt behaviors that reduce infection, including disinfection …

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Introduction to Health Journalism

WebJour72401. Credits: 3. Health & Science. Spring. Health journalists don’t just cover illness. They report on the overlap between public health and social issues such as gun violence and addiction. In this required introductory class, students choose a beat — health disparities, grief, life extension, or birth control, to name a few examples.

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In Memoriam: Marshall Allen

WebMarshall Allen, a formidable health journalist who inspired many students at the Newmark J-School for a decade, died on Sunday, May 19, 2024. He was 52. Allen, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, joined the Newmark J-School in 2012. Alumni and former colleagues took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to mourn Allen, who had a profound influence not …

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The Doctor Drain » A helping hand for new doctors

WebAt the end of a low-lit hallway lined with empty hospital beds, Xin She slipped a plastic gown over her white lab coat. She smoothed the long sleeves, slowly pulled a paper mask over her mouth and turned to two other residents.

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With Mobile Clinics, Dollar General Gets a Slow Start in …

WebThen there’s the problem of getting people to trust healthcare delivered in a parking lot. Citing DocGo sources, KFF Health News reported in October that the clinic had treated “about 1,000 patients,” both at Dollar General and other sites. That figure is “probably on the low end” of DocGo’s expectations, MacDonald said, although it is not …

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The Doctor Drain » At stake in the Bronx

WebGraphic: The costs of diabetes Treating Montefiore’s diabetes patients with coordinated teams helped reduce the cost per patient by 12 percent between 2006 and 2010. (Source: Montefiore Medical Center)

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The Doctor Drain » The healthcare maze

WebSusan Fraker, FNP May 23, 2012. Hello to all the students in Steve’s seminar: I’m the journalist/nurse practitioner who spoke to you about the troubled healthcare system earlier this year.

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Chewy Focuses on Pet Health in an Attempt to Become …

WebIn 2022, Chewy plans to partner with Trupanion Inc. (TRUP) to offer customers both preventative care wellness plans and comprehensive insurance plans for accidents, illnesses and chronic conditions.

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Healthcare Consolidations Induce Regulatory Scrutiny …

WebImage: Dared Price purchased Graves Drug in 2010, which now has seven locations throughout South Central Kansas. Source: Dared Price. Since Dared Price founded his independent community pharmacies in 2010, haggling with large consolidated healthcare companies for fair reimbursements has become less of a negotiation and …

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Low-Wage Health Care Workers’ Fight for Better Pay Has Just Begun

WebNursing assistants cited low pay as the No. 1 reason for leaving their current jobs: in 2013, the median hourly wage for a CNA was $11.97 an hour, $4.90 less than the median wage for all occupations. Adjusted for inflation, that’s $0.36 less than a nursing assistant’s average hourly pay in 2002.

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Health SimpleScience

WebTalk With Your Mouth Full: Benefits of the Family Dinner. by Ian Chant The tradition of families reporting on their days over dinner seems more like a leftover every day, but recent studies have suggested that family togetherness is not the only thing that suffers when parents and kids fail to connect over a meal.

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The Doctor Drain

WebNew York City's looming primary care crisis — and how to fix it. Greg Katz, a recent graduate of NYU Medical School, is considering a career in family practice, but faces strong pressure to become a specialist – the choice that too many young doctors are making in a city whose poorer neighborhoods need better access to healthcare.

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McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New …

WebMcAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New Yorker 5/1/12 4:10 PM http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande?printable=true

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Emily Laber-Warren

WebBefore coming to CUNY, Laber-Warren taught for 12 years in NYU’s Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program. She is the author of “A Walk in the Woods: Into the Field Guide,” an introduction to forest ecology for young children, published by Downtown Bookworks in 2013. She was a Tow Professor at the Newmark J-School from 2020-2022.

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CVS considers Cano Health bid in its buy up of primary care services

WebIn what would be a deeper plunge into the primary care space, CVS is considering an acquisition of Cano Health. The news comes just weeks after the health giant announced it had purchased Signify Health.

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IMMIGRATION, WORK AND HEALTH: THE BIG ISSUES

WebFor the first 20 days of January 2020, the daily percentage of articles on immigration was just 3.75%, a lower percentage than the same period the two previous years (9.75% in 2018 and 6.41% in 2019). 1. Declining immigration coverage. In 2018, the Spanish-speaking media outlets studied increased the amount of content they were producing.

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The Doctor Drain » Modern-day stories of the pill

WebForty years after hormonal birth control became widely available, it is back in the political limelight. In the past few months there has been an all-male Congressional hearing about the extent to which employer-based insurance should cover contraception. Catholic institutions have argued that being forced to provide birth control through insurers …

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Aging America Nudging UnitedHealth to Invest in Home Care

WebEach Medicare Advantage member pays a premium to UnitedHealthcare, but the insurer must spend at least 85% of that remittance towards the patient’s care and have 15% to pay for administration costs and fees, as well as profits earned.

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Wall Street Plays Long Game in the Health Insurance Market

WebAll year health insurance stocks have been under the weather, battling against uncertainties, but the long-term fundamentals should rejuvenate the well-being of insurers’ core business in due course.

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The Doctor Drain » Family practice just doesn’t pay

WebSpecialists can earn up to $400,000 a year or more, while family physicians without a subspecialty in obstetrics make less than $190,000, according to reports by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Medical Group Management Association. Some of those physicians won’t see much of their salary at the start.

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Immune to market slump, these four major healthcare stocks are …

WebThe economy may be ailing but dominant healthcare stocks have so far resisted infection, and look poised to continue thriving. Pharmacy retailer and insurer CVS (CVS) closed Friday at $102 per share, just about where it began the year.

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