Association of Health Care Journalists

Association of Health Care Journalists

The Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) is a nonprofit group that operates independently, with a focus on enhancing the public’s knowledge of health care topics. The organization aims to elevate the quality, precision, and prominence of reporting, writing, and editing in the health care sector. Currently, AHCJ boasts a membership of over 1,500 individuals.

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  • 1 week ago | healthjournalism.org | Katie Burke |Tara Haelle

    In our first post, we provided a very broad overview of the ongoing bird flu situation. This post will focus specifically on stories reporters can do on ecological health issues, including veterinary, agricultural and wildlife angles — areas that have been underreported by health journalists but are particularly important at the local level.

  • 2 weeks ago | healthjournalism.org | Anna Medaris

    From news about the Trump administration’s insulting potential strategies to incentivize women to have more babies to dire headlines about abortion bans increasing infant and maternal mortality, there’s no shortage of depressing — if not downright dystopian — reproductive health stories for journalists to follow and write.

  • 3 weeks ago | healthjournalism.org | Jyoti Madhusoodanan

    Lab-developed tests (LDTs) are diagnostic tools widely used across health care to test blood, tissue or other samples for infectious diseases, genetic markers, or other biomarkers of many conditions. Unlike tests manufactured and marketed commercially, LDTs are designed and used within a single lab that meets certain stringent standards.

  • 3 weeks ago | healthjournalism.org | Joseph Burns

    When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, lobbying from health insurers and physicians helped to kill a potentially significant provision: a government-run public option health insurance program. In early versions of the ACA, President Barack Obama proposed that it include a public option that could compete with private insurers and keep them honest, as Robert Pear reported for The New York Times.

  • 3 weeks ago | healthjournalism.org | Karen Blum

    Medical device manufacturers are required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to report within 30 days any adverse safety events like malfunctions that could injure someone. The agency compiles these events in a centralized database called the Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) and uses the information to decide whether to communicate any safety concerns to the health care community and/or the public, or pursue any other regulatory actions including recalls.