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Births of drug-exposed babies are soaring in California, but their fates are tough to track
What happens to the growing number of drug-exposed babies? Answers "proved maddeningly difficult to tease out — much harder than we expected," writes reporter Teri Sforza.
KHN's JoNel Aleccia talks about how to give your reporting more impact
Find the people who can tell the story. Scrutinize death records. Isolate the levers that can create change.
Health policy expert: ‘I’m here to tell you the ACA is still working’
“For supporters of the ACA, we dodged a bullet,” said UCLA's Gerald Kominski. “However, just because the Dems won the House does not mean the ACA is safe at all.”
The latest from our community
A reporter learns to go slow and gain trust for series on harm reduction for drug users
"You can’t just waltz into a community of people who are marginalized and under threat, stick a microphone in their faces and start asking them questions," writes reporter Judith Mernit, a 2018 Impact Fund recipient.
Napa Valley’s underbelly: The personal cost of living locally
The story of the Napa Valley is about more than its transition from a sleepy, rural commuter town to the wine capital of America, drawing millions of tourists per year.
How LA’s beach communities are taking cues from ‘Blue Zones’ to engineer healthy changes
Can the "Blue Zones" approach lower chronic disease rates and boost lifespans? Or is it turning into a lifestyle movement for already healthy, affluent areas?
Five hard-won lessons from reporting on what domestic abuse does to children's brains
"One of the first lessons we learned was the need for patience with survivors. We were often asking people to relive their trauma when we interviewed them and that carried a high emotional cost for families."
Chief clinical officer of Health Leads implores journalists to go deeper on homelessness
Dr. Damon Francis doesn’t shy away from sparring with a room full of journalists when he thinks the media is getting the story wrong.
Podcast will explore the link between Johnson & Johnson baby powder and cancer in women
Stories of J&J’s negligence have been trickling out for decades and gaining traction as people began to sue the multinational company.
A terrifying story of domestic abuse posed agonizing challenges for USA Today team
How a reporting team overcame countless hurdles to tell a new story of how children are affected by the family violence they experience, from the time they are in utero through childhood and after.
A mother’s anguish drives podcast series on toxic pesticide
Three children belonging to the same set of parents, with a combined four brain malformations that doctors say are unrelated. “The doctors are wrong,” says the mother.
