I figured the air around Chicago rail yards would be dirty...but finding out was not as easy as it seemed.
Should student journalists try to specialize in health? This week in Career GPS, we ask journalism professors what they tell their students about journalism, specialization and the job market ahead.
The average immigrant comes to the United States as a healthier individual than the average U.S.-born American. However, by the time they reach the age of 75 or 80, immigrants suffer from much higher rates of chronic illness than their American-born peers.
Health Care Brands president Dr. Jason Schiffman works at the intersections of psychiatry, consumer information, business and online health care. And he's happy to be there.
It takes a certain kind of stubbornness and stick-to-it-ness to develop a successful online news site or a popular blog, especially if you are writing about the civic life of your community — not fashion tidbits or celebrity gossip. We are working with these news innovators to expand their health reporting.
This story explores how freeways may cause children in certain Utah neighborhoods to be hospitalized more often. It is a sidebar to the third part of her series on health disparities in Salt Lake City.
In an effort to promote awareness of the relationship between healthy forests, healthy people and healthy economies, The UN has declared 2011 the International Year of Forests. One overlooked reality links healthy forests, healthy people and improved global sanitation: the production and use of toilet paper, from forest to flush.
The final state in Antidote’s Doctors Behaving Badly tour of state medical boards should have been Wyoming.
Daniel Hancz is chief pharmacist for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and a specialist in counterfeit and foreign drug identification. He was formerly a supervisor at the Los Angeles County Regional Drug and Poison Information Center. He has been assigned to the Health Authority Law Enforcement Task force for eight years. He is also an adjunct professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Southern California.
