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Over the next couple of weeks, the Public Library of Science is publishing a series of eight articles looking at the health impact of “Big Food,” which they define as “the multinational food and beverage industry with huge and concentrated market power.”...

With the National Health Journalism Fellowship I just learned I received—thank you!—I'll embark on another reporting trip in Indian country, this time to investigate an aspect of children's health. The communities I'll visit are under siege, with many resources still dwindling: land bases; languages; clean water; fresh, culturally appropriate...

Get the information you need for smart coverage of the Supreme Court's decision on health reform.

Who's actually doing the disease mongering in pharma today? Not the research scientists.

With the Supreme Court poised to issue its ruling on “Obamacare” any day now, many of us find ourselves wondering whether our nation’s highest court will ...make it MORE difficult for this country to achieve what virtually every other industrialized nation already guarantees as a fundamental human r

What Americans should know about the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court decision on health reform.

Autism researchers seek brains, obesity screening recommended, drug policy debated, insurers double dipping on veteran care and more from our Daily Briefing.

Journalist Tammy Worth examines the debate over so-called "Agent Orange Corn."

Big stakes for California in Supreme Court health reform decision, pesticide risk for farmworkers investigated, Celebrex documents unsealed and more from our Daily Briefing.

Living With Sickle Cell Disease: The Struggle to Survive was a book I absolutely had to write. Prompting me to undertake such a daunting project was finally having had it with being treated as less than a person whenever I showed up at an emergency room.