Infectious disease is dead. Long live infectious disease
Are many journalists so attuned to the study of lifestyle factors fueling the rise of cancer, heart disease and diabetes that infectious disease flew under the radar?
View ArticleRoot causes of ill health fall flat in Bloomberg’s soda ban
While reactions to Bloomberg’s soda ban continue to effervesce, those truly concerned with the public’s health would be well advised to hold their praise.
View ArticleAre Coca Cola's Donations for Public Parks Just "Sugarwashing"?
A public relations industry award highlights a Coca Cola campaign that some critics call "sugarwashing."
View ArticleThe Adverse Childhood Experiences Study -- the largest public health study...
"Adverse childhood experience" has become a buzzword in social services, public health, education, pediatrics and even business. Do you know your own ACE score?
View ArticleLittle Known Livestock Drug at Heart of US/Russia Trade Dispute
A drug many people are eating without knowing it is starting a trade dispute between Russia and the US. This week, Russia announced it will turn away US beef and pork imports unless the US can certify...
View ArticleMy Fellowship game plan
I've been selected to participate in the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship sessions in Los Angeles. Here's my game plan.
View ArticleFood's role in diabetes debated
Experts debate whether fast food trumps soul food as a contributing factor to diabetes in the south.
View ArticleDear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully. Sincerely,...
Dear Consumers: A disturbing trend has come to our attention. You, the people, are thinking more about health, and you’re starting to do something about it. This cannot continue.
View ArticleChildhood Obesity: A Few Resources For Reporters
An expert told this reporter in an interview about childhood obesity that it remains a major threat to kids’ health, the emotional issues surrounding it are at least as important – if not more so. And...
View ArticleFellowship project: Childhood obesity, nutrition and food in the Los Angeles...
My colleague Michelle Valles and I plan a unique online-broadcast collaboration that we'll begin to realize through the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship this month. We believe a focus...
View ArticleBorn in the U.S.A.: The Reversal of the Latino Health Paradox
Good health is almost always associated with wealth and education, and yet low-income, newly arrived Latinos with neither of these are generally healthier than whites by a number of measures - what's...
View ArticleChildhood obesity, nutrition and food in the Los Angeles area
Working as a team for NBC4 Southern California my colleague Melissa Pamer and I will take on and humanize a hot topic as part of our 2013 California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship: childhood...
View ArticleToo Young to Die
Chicago Photographer Carlos Javier Ortiz, a 2012 National Health Journalism Fellow, has been chronicling the impact of violence on Chicago youth for six years.
View ArticleBad Diets for Kids--and the Drugs That Enable Them
Like adults, children are suffering from "middle-age spread" -- too many calories and not enough exercise. And like adults, they are taking pills to accommodate the conditions instead of making...
View ArticleSelf surgery clinics to open
The medical equivalents of U-Haul, Home Depot and rental rug shampooers, self service operating rooms have been the subject of debate and excitement.
View ArticleAntronette Yancey: An Untimely Death of a Public Health Hero
Antronette Yancey pioneered “Instant Recess." With her death at 55, we need to keep moving to honor her legacy. Workplaces across America will hold a 10-minute “Instant Recess” in her honor, at 1 p.m....
View ArticleNew Book Says Tracking Sickness to Its Source Can Transform Health Care
Innovative providers understand health is more than a chemical equation that can be balanced with pills and procedures. They see that health begins in our everyday lives, in the places where we live,...
View ArticleBlacks Have Highest Diabetes-Related Deaths in NYC
Diabetes-related deaths have reached an all-time high in New York City, and communities of color are being hit the hardest.
View ArticleEvidence Suggests Early Years Key in Fighting Obesity
Obesity has been very much in the news this week after the American Medical Association voted to label the condition a disease, a move that could eventually pave the way for expanded insurance coverage...
View ArticleColorado's watered down elementary school exercise law
I-News at Rocky Mountain PBS posted today its package on the Colorado state law and childhood obesity. So far, Rocky Mountain PBS has done a 15-minute program on it and 9News has tapped a segment on...
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