Prior to 2007, a clinic like Anaheim Hills Surgery Center could have been penalized or even shut down by the state of California. One court ruling changed that, allowin
Stan Bosch is a psychotherapist and supervisor for gang intervention workers and case managers for the city of Los Angeles’ Gang Reduction and Youth Development project (GRYD). A Catholic priest, he has ministered to Los Angeles’s gang-involved youth for more than 20 years. He is a member of the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity, a religious community that works with the poor and abandoned. He previously served as pastor of several churches in Mexico and for 11 years as pastor of Our Lady of Victory and Sacred Heart churches in Compton.
Some of heath care reform's provisions went into effect today -- to acclaim and criticism, but mostly just explanation. Here's a rundown of coverage in the ReportingonHealth community.
8 changes, 7 caveats: http://www.reportingonhealth.org/users/macwrite"
Veteran food policy journalist Christopher Cook offers context on "food deserts" and how to identify and report on them in your community.
Like writing about abortion or animal rights, writing about vaccines inevitably raises the ire of certain readers. It is not for the timid. Journalist Amy Wallace writes about being sued by an anti-vaccine activist and offers tips for covering this controversial and emotionally-charged topic.
Joanna Lin graduated from USC in 2008, just before the U.S. economy began to nosedive. Since then, she has worked for five different media outlets, grew a professional journalism career in a time of upheaval, and developed a philosophy and fortitude about doing the work she loves.
After a 30-year career writing about health, Susan Brinks found herself in the throes of her own medical story.
She has been a freelancer since being laid off from the Los Angeles Times in October 2008, and her COBRA -- the post-employment extension of her health insurance -- runs out on July 20.
Tom Linden seemed to be on a fast track to a successful career in journalism.
He was the editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper in Southern California. As a college student at Yale University, Linden got his reporter's legs at the Yale Daily News and covered the New Haven Black Panther trials for the Los Angeles Times. When he graduated in 1970, he won a fellowship and secured a book deal to write about army deserters in exile who were protesting or escaping the Vietnam War.
A judge this week rejected an attempt by the state of California to temporarily ban Dr. Conrad Murray, the doctor charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson.
Now the ball is in the Medical Board of California’s court. The board rightly sought to use the criminal justice system first to stop Murray from practicing.
But few reporters picked up on the fact that the criminal system isn’t the only route.
I’d like to believe that dangling financial incentives in front of medical groups and doctors shouldn’t influence the quality of my health care for better or worse.
But they apparently do exactly that, according to some intriguing new research on how financial incentives influenced health screenings and treatment for millions of patients at Kaiser Permanente, the giant HMO based in California.
