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lborkowski | August 15, 2017A few of the recent pieces I recommend reading:
Larissa MacFarquhar in the New Yorker: When Should a Child Be Taken from His Parents?
Brian Rinker at STAT: 32 churches and no methadone clinic: struggling with addiction in an opioid ‘treatment desert’
Renee Bracey Sherman in the New York Times: The Right to (Black) Life
Brianna Ehley at Politico: ‘I just started flowing. It was the only thing that helped.’In tough neighborhoods, can high-school mental health counselors cut the school-to-prison pipeline?
Yamiche Alcindor in the New York Times: In Sweltering South, Climate Change Is Now a…
lborkowski | April 14, 2014The Washington Post's After the Wars series offers an in-depth look at the challenges facing veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. This past week, it's featured Rajiv Chandrasekaran's "The Other Wounds," about veterans' injuries and illnesses that aren't the direct results of enemy attacks, and Stephanie McCrummen's "The Choice," about one of the difficult decisions facing survivors of military sexual assault.
An unprecedented release of Medicare data has allowed for a lot of reporting on how much Medicare pays physicians; Puneet Kollipara rounds up several articles in Wonbook. Two…
lborkowski | November 1, 2013If you only have time for one long read this week, make it the excellent "Breathless and Burdened" series by Chris Hamby of the Center for Public Integrity. The series website explains, "This yearlong investigation examines how doctors and lawyers, working at the behest of the coal industry, have helped defeat the benefits claims of miners sick and dying of black lung, even as disease rates are on the rise and an increasing number of miners are turning to a system that was supposed to help alleviate their suffering." This is investigative reporting at its finest!
Other recent pieces I've…
lborkowski | July 31, 2013A few of the recent pieces I've liked:
Two Nature news features on antibiotic-resistant bacteria, by Maryn McKenna and Beth Mole, respectively: Antibiotic resistance: The last resort and MRSA: Farming up trouble
David Leonhardt in the New York Times: In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters
Jim Morris at the Center for Public Integrity: Industry muscle targets federal 'Report on Carcinogens'
Stephanie Lee in the San Francisco Chronicle/ Reporting on Health: Poverty, health struggles in scenic Mendocino
Charles Kenny & Justin Sandefur in Foreign Policy: Can Silicon Valley Save the World…
lborkowski | May 31, 2013A few of the recent pieces I've liked:
The Latest in the NPR-WAMU series Poisoned Places: Elizabeth Shogren and Robert Bennicasa on "Baton Rouge's Corroded, Overpolluting Neighbor: ExxonMobil"and Richard Harris on "Breathing Easier: How Houston is Working to Clean up its Air."
Maryn McKenna at Superbug: To Prevent MRSA In Hospitals, Don’t Prevent Only MRSA
Matthew Yglesias at Slate: The Best and Simplest Way to Fight Global Poverty
Eric Jankiewicz and Sara Sugar of Brooklyn Bureau: Bushwick's Struggles With Asthma: What's Poverty's Role?
Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein, and Jennifer LaFleur of…
lborkowski | October 25, 2012A few of the recent pieces I've liked:
Jason Beaubien (here, too), Jackie Northam (here, too), Julie McCarthy, and Michaeleen Doucleff in NPR's terrific polio series.
Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Atlantic blog: Pregnancy as Labor
Jenni Bergal at the Washington Post: Moving people out of nursing homes proves to be difficult, despite federal funding
Bora Zivkovic at A Blog Around the Clock: Stumped by bed nets, mosquitoes turn midnight snack into breakfast
Jane Brody at the New York Times' Well Blog: In Fight Against Obesity, Drink Sizes Matter
And this would technically be in the "worth watching"…
lborkowski | December 20, 2011A few of the recent pieces I've liked:
Vanessa Veselka at The Atlantic: In the Wake of Protest: One Woman's Attempt to Unionize Amazon
Marshall Allen at ProPublica: Without Autopsies, Hospitals Bury Their Mistakes
Maryn McKenna at Superbug: Fecal Transplants: They Work, the Regulations Don't
Jonathan Cohn at The New Republic: Ron Wyden, Paul Ryan, and the Future of Medicare
Shankar Vedantam at NPR: Marriage Economy: 'I Couldn't Afford to Get Divorced'
lborkowski | November 23, 2011A few of the recent pieces I've liked:
A special investigative series by several reporters at Center for Public Integiryt/iWatch News and NPR: Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities
Deborah Blum at Speakeasy Science: About Pepper Spray (also see her followup, Fox News Food Products)
and, relatedly:
Judy Stone at the Scientific American Guest Blog: Should pepper spray be put on (clinical) trial?
Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein at Pro Publica: Florida Sanctions Top Medicaid Prescribers -- But Only After a Shove
And just in time for Thanksgiving travel and turkey consumption:
Simon…
lborkowski | October 25, 2011A few of the recent pieces I've liked:
Maryn McKenna at Superbug: Scathing Report: Polio Eradication "Not ... Any Time Soon"
Douglas Starr at Discover Magazine: Sparks of Truth: Can Science Bring Justice to Arson Trials?
Scicurious at The Scicurious Brain: Grab your Coffee, I think this paper may depress you
Patricia Leigh Brown at California Watch: On edge of paradise, Coachella workers live in grim conditions
Andrew Villegas at Kaiser Health News: Groups Thank "Obamacare," and Not Sarcastically
And in the "worth hearing" category: Not Exactly Rocket Science blogger Ed Yong talks to BBC's…
lborkowski | April 13, 2011A few of the recent pieces I've liked:
Maryn McKenna at Superbug: Superbugs Found in New Delhi's Water and Sewage
Kim Barker at ProPublica: 'Spillionaires': Profiteering and Mismanagement in the Wake of the BP Oil Spill
Darryl Fears in the Washington Post: Goldman Environmental Prize goes to Texas man who took on refineries over pollution
Janet D. Stemwedel at Adventures in Ethics and Science: Equal Pay Day 2011: There is power in a union
Martin Austermuhle in the Nation: Washington, DC: Where Conservative Congressmen Dump Bad Ideas