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2 months ago | 
aarp.org | Laura Beil
Medical assistant Ruth Vergara of Everest Health in Vienna, Virginia, measures Anita Wheaton’s grip strength during an October 2024 check-in at the longevity clinic. Greg Kahn Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Longevity clinics are popping up everywhere. In academic medical centers, strip malls and luxury wellness resorts.
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2 months ago | 
aarp.org | Laura Beil
Nolan Peterson is a wellness coach at Mayo Clinic’s Healthy Living Program and Longevity Clinic, in Rochester, Minn. Ackerman + Gruber Facebook Twitter LinkedIn It’s not about telling people what to do, says Nolan Peterson, a board-certified health and wellness coach at the Mayo Clinic.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
texasmonthly.com | Laura Beil
For as long as anyone could remember, Kimberly Ray had shown a soft spot for animals. When she was five years old, she discovered a newly hatched starling that had tumbled from its nest and was distraught when she couldn’t nurse it back to health. Years later, while visiting a shelter to help a friend pick out a dog, she saw a pit bull puppy and adopted her on the spot because she was afraid no one else would.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
healthjournalism.org | Laura Beil |Barbara Mantel
Attending meetings of medical associations and societies is a great way to search for story ideas, connect with sources or simply keep up with the latest news and research in a particular field. The AHCJ Freelance Committee has an ongoing effort to allow freelancers to register for meetings without a specific assignment letter from an editor. Below is a list of organizations that have agreed to allow AHCJ membership to serve as credentialing.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Megan O’Matz |Anna Maria Barry-Jester |Bianca Fortis |Laura Beil
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Wisconsin’s dinosaur-shaped legislative district could soon be history. The curiously drawn district and other oddities associated with the state’s extreme gerrymandering would be erased in new voting maps passed this week by the Wisconsin Legislature.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
propublica.org | T. Christian Miller |Anna Maria Barry-Jester |Bianca Fortis |Laura Beil
Health insurers reject millions of claims for treatment every year in America. Corporate insiders, recordings and internal emails expose the system and its harm. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In January, the Biden administration pledged to increase public access to a wide array of Medicare information to improve health care for America’s most sick and vulnerable.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Stephen Engelberg |Anna Maria Barry-Jester |Bianca Fortis |Laura Beil
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The photographs are arresting. Leaking roofs. Classrooms set up in closets and stairwells. Charred electrical outlets that short out when students plug in a laptop. The images document the devastating story of public school infrastructure in Idaho, a state where voters have repeatedly rejected bond issues needed to pay for new schools and repair old ones.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Becca Savransky |Anna Maria Barry-Jester |Bianca Fortis |Laura Beil
Idaho spends less, per student, on schools than any other state. Restrictive policies created a funding crisis that’s left rural schools with collapsing roofs, deteriorating foundations and freezing classrooms. This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Idaho Statesman. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Stephen Engelberg |Anna Maria Barry-Jester |Bianca Fortis |Laura Beil
Casi cada día entre semana a las 07:00, el Presidente de México Andrés Manuel López Obrador ofrece una conferencia de prensa conocida como “la mañanera.” El presidente responde a preguntas de los reporteros, pero su objetivo es controlar las noticias, relatando sus logros y despotricando contra sus enemigos, verdaderos y supuestos, especialmente los de los medios.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Stephen Engelberg |Anna Maria Barry-Jester |Bianca Fortis |Laura Beil
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Almost every weekday at 7 a.m., Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador holds a press conference known in Spanish as “la mañanera,” or, loosely translated, the morning show. He takes questions from reporters, but his purpose is to control the news, recounting his achievements and bashing his enemies, real and perceived — especially those in the media.
