COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 4 -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following commentary on July 3, 2024: * * * Best (and Worst) Ways to Connect to Editors and Pitch Stories By Sharon Donovan Succinct -- yet still meaty -- pitches are the key to submitting a story idea that will attract an editor's attention, agreed a panel of editors representing A-list publications and websites at HJ24. However, the editors noted, pitches should also include relevant sources to illustrate  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 4 -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following commentary on July 3, 2024: * * * Covering America's Life Expectancy Crisis By LaVonne Roberts A panel of journalists, researchers and doctors explored the alarming crisis of premature death in America during the "Covering America's life expectancy crisis" at Health Journalism 2024 in New York City in June. According to the Commonwealth Fund's latest research, the U.S. spends more on health care th  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 4 -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following commentary on July 3, 2024: * * * Economist, Doctor Suggest Publicly Funded Health Care as Solution to Insurance Woes By Sean Kirkby Publicly funded health care could fix the country's ailing insurance system, an economist and a physician agreed during a Health Journalism 2024 panel. Amy Finkelstein, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that 1 in 10 Americans u  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 4 -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following commentary on July 3, 2024: * * * How Journalism Can Shed Light on Medicine's Hidden Racial Bias By Anil Oza A Friday panel at HJ24 titled "The racial bias hiding in plain sight" tackled the topic of race in clinical algorithms. For decades, researchers and clinicians have introduced so-called "race corrections" in clinical tools used to make health decisions such as placing people on kidney transpl  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 4 -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following commentary on July 3, 2024: * * * Separating the Wheat From the Chaff in Health Studies By Megan Myscofski Covering health-related studies is usually a large part of a health reporter's job. It can also be one of the most fraught because studies can be difficult to vet for meaningfulness or accuracy, especially on a tight deadline. "We as journalists are the last chance to get it right for the pub  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 4 (TNSres) -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following news: Journalists often cover health disparities with racial comparisons like Black people are 40% more likely to die of colorectal cancer than most other racial groups; non-Hispanic white people are at higher risk of melanoma than Black or Hispanic people; and Black people are 1.5 times more likely to have high blood pressure than white Americans. Highlighting these differences is important   more

CHESTERFIELD, Missouri, July 3 -- The National Corn Growers Association issued the following news: National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) hosted the fourth annual Women and Mentors Retreat in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 27 and 28. The program offers a network for women and their male allies, providing mentorships and creating a pipeline of female leaders for NCGA and other agricultural organizations. Participants at the most recent event noted that they were able to grow their leadership,   more