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USC Annenberg support will help journalists with ambitious projects ranging from a look at the lack of sanitation in remote Alaskan villages to an examination of the costs of Alzheimer's in Florida.

Health spending increases in the U.S. have slowed, but costs are still rising. This week's National Fellows heard from two innovative programs that are trying very different approaches to cutting costs by managing patients who are among the highest utilizers of our health care system.

This story about a congressman accepting a challenge to live healthier for 30 days and encouraging constituents to do the same came out of the blue....

There is a saying bouncing around regional Indian country right now. It goes: When the wrong people leave your life, the right things happen. That is hitting the mark for me right now. I had left a taxing relationship and within weeks, I received my Health Fellowship. I left USC feeling a certain de

For her masterful series on the irrationality of the country's health care pricing system, Elisabeth Rosenthal had to rethink reader feedback as a rich potential source of stories and subjects rather than just a zany grab bag of complaints and comments.

We have no problem opting-in to privacy policies from iTunes or Angry Birds, and yet many express unease at the idea of hospitals using our data to intervene in our health care. Do health providers just need better incentives to get people to share?

In advance of next week's 2014 National Health Journalism Fellowship in Los Angeles, here's a preview of the wide-ranging projects this year's fellows will report out in the months to come.

The on-line journal Argument & Critique has published my academic treatment of the shaken baby syndrome literature, after an editorial exchange that has clarified my understanding of the media's role in the professional debate about shaken baby syndrome and sharpened my appreciation for The Nati

St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Bismarck Tribune are both in need of new health care reporters. Check out this week's full listing of job, intern and fellowship opportunities.

Black Market for Health Services operates indiscriminately in cities near the border between the two countries.