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Center for Health Journalism Digital's "Health and the Built Environment Webinar: What Makes a Healthy Environment?" offered ideas for journalists to cover this important issue, which when left unaddressed by the medical community can add significantly to medical costs and patient morbidity.

If your main sources on the health beat are physicians, you’re not doing your job. That became clear over the course of Health and the Built Environment Webinar: What Makes a Healthy Environment?, presented by Center for Health Journalism Digital this week.

Efforts all across California aim to educate and enroll those newly eligible for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.

There's still time to join the Kaiser Family Foundation webinar for journalists reporting on what consumers need to know about health reform. Plus, health writing and editing jobs available in New Jersey, Washington D.C., Ohio, St. Louis and Oregon.

Allergic disorders, including asthma and allergies, are one of the leading causes of chronic illness, affecting more than 50 million Americans and costing more than $20 billion annually.

Ask people who sell health insurance for a living if they are prepared to explain the Affordable Care Act policies coming into the market on Oct. 1, and you will get an earful. Agents must be certified to explain and compare options for customers but so far, none in California is certified.

The Solutions Journalism Network and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation have global health "positive deviants" ripe for applying to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting's grant.

Sometimes the good work you do as a journalist has an impact after you’re no longer around to enjoy the praise. Consider former WUKY reporter Brenna Angel, who pushed for University of Kentucky hospital records about pediatric cardiac surgery mortality rates.

Check out a fellowship program designed for fellowship program for journalists specializing in health care, criminal justice and related beats. Also listed are opportunities at Kaiser Health News and e.Republic.

The sustained fire power and reach of seven news outlets – combined with community outreach efforts – have yielded results as we approach the one-year anniversary of the new Reporting on Health Collaborative and its series on the toll of valley fever.