Our nationally recognized webinars bring together top experts and leading reporters to offer timely primers, briefings and essential background on the biggest health stories of the day. Check out our deep library of nearly 100 previous webinars, archived below for full viewing. Brush up on crucial health topics, gather resources, and discover overlooked story ideas.
The 24-year-old Oakland law student forced to raid his student loans to pay for blood cancer drugs before dropping out with a pile of debt. The mother of two who faced a $1,000 bill to treat her family for pinworms using a decades-old treatment. There are stories like these in every community, and t
In the past five months, 100 people have been shot to death in just three mass shootings in Florida, Nevada and Texas. The carnage has left Americans hungry for a deeper understanding of what drives such violence and how we might collectively respond to the terrifying recurrence of such atrocities.
The repeal of the health insurance mandate by Congress in December could result in 13 million fewer Americans with health insurance over the next decade, according the CBO. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have suggested the move could lead to Obamacare’s collapse, especially when combined wit
The numbers are eye-popping: $25,000 MRIs, the $1,000-a-day hepatitis B drug, $629 for an ER visit that only delivered a Band-Aid. As leading health care economists bluntly put it in a famous research paper, “It’s the prices stupid.” Experts increasingly point to the high cost of care in America — n
The opioid epidemic has given rise to an illicit gold rush as patient brokers and treatment centers profit off desperate addicts, funneling them to shoddy treatment centers and fraudulent “sober” homes at a profit of thousands per head. The profiteering, unfolding in communities across the country,
This webinar will help reporters understand what’s behind the disturbingly high U.S. maternal mortality rates and look to California, which has become a leader in finding ways to lower the death rate, make better use of data and improve outcomes.
