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USC Center for Health Journalism announces Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Fund Grantees

The Center for Health Journalism is pleased to announce the selection of six California journalists who will be participating ...
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The Health Divide: The AI data center boom will harm the health of communities that can least afford it

As the data center building spree continues and the federal government rolls back environmental and health protections, the ...
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Displaced Asian Seniors Find Their Bearings With Help from Local Community Organizations

After being displaced by a fire in May in the Jones Senior Homes apartment complex in San Francisco’s Japantown neighborhood, elderly residents were abruptly forced to adapt to unfamiliar ...
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COVID forced Bay Area families to make agonizing elder-care decisions. Is there a fix?

As the deadly winter surge in coronavirus cases began last November, Fred Mekata was doing something that had become unthinkable to millions of Americans: moving into an assisted-living facility. The ...
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Patterns of death in the South still show the outlines of slavery

Reporting for this story was supported by the Center for Health Journalism’s Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism and the Fund for Journalism on Child Well-being. ">2) The region, known as the ...
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Oregon Activists Who Opposed Public Health Efforts to Increase Vaccination Rates Are Now Running for Office

This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Rachel Monahan, a participant in the 2020 National Fellowship. Anna Kasachev got her start in Oregon politics by lobbying against a bill ...
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Congress takes first step toward equal coverage of mental, physical disability coverage

A bill introduced in Congress this month would end the disparity in how long-term disability insurance carriers treat physical conditions and mental conditions or substance abuse disorders. Today, ...
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Delta's cities show its plight; Blytheville, Pine Bluff face future after population drops

Tom Sylvester used to look up at the sky above Blytheville in the 1970s, watch the planes fly out of the nearby Air Force base and dream about being able to glide among the clouds. "The Air Force base ...
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Wisconsin doctors who make mistakes often don't face serious consequences

Wisconsin has long ranked near the bottom of states in taking serious actions against doctors, according to Public Citizen. In the group's latest report, the state ranked 46th, up from 49th the ...
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Mark Kreidler

Mark Kreidler is a national writer specializing in health and health policy, inequity, extended feature, and sports. His work appears at Capital & Main, The Washington Post, Kaiser Health News and ...
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53206 is Wisconsin's most incarcerated ZIP code. Here are 4 more facts about the Milwaukee neighborhood.

James E. Causey’s reporting on this project was completed with the support of a USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism grant. 1. A 2013 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee study found it was the ...