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In California, Certified Enrollment Counselors fill a role under the Affordable Care Act similar to the one that’s often described as a “navigator” on a national level. But under Covered California, CECs and navigators are not the same thing.

Reporters interested in exploring topics in mental health and illness check out The Carter Center's latest fellowship. Also listed are opportunities at POLITICO Pro and The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

According to a 2005 U.S. Department of Education longitudinal study, about half of those with disabilities enrolled in post-secondary coursework did not define themselves as disabled.

An estimated 400,000 people end up in one of the 250 detention centers across the United States annually -- the majority being Hispanic.

When medical boards are at their best, they focus on the types of poor judgment calls that hurt patients. But boards also care about other things: when doctors don’t pay their taxes, how well doctors keep up their books, and who they date.

Would parents do anything differently if they were told that there were a higher than expected number of cases of babies with birth defects happening around the same time that they were pregnant or just recently had a child?

What does health reform look like at the ground level? Very different from the typical media diet of enrollment updates and website glitches.

For my fellowship project, I aimed to compare two other states to my home state of Colorado’s approach to the Affordable Care Act. Showing the law actually creating new opportunities in Colorado would be easy. Showing the law not working in a state that's resisting it would be tougher.

Reporting on Health is now accepting applications for the 2014 National Health Journalism Fellowship. Additionally, look at these openings at POLITICO Pro, The American Public Health Association and FierceHealthcare.

Average hospital charges for maternity care in California for ART/AI infants were almost fifty percent higher than for naturally conceived infants.