By Dinah Eng As the spotlight on health care reform has intensified, health reporters have been challenged to explain what policy changes mean to the consumer, especially since political and business reporters seem to have taken the lead on the…
By Jarre Fees Health officials nationwide went on alert in late March 2009 after a unique flu virus was reported in central Mexico. By early April, the 2009 H1N1 virus had been reported in Texas and California; within weeks it…
By Elizabeth Jensen The first-place winners of this year’s Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism exposed questions surrounding the safety of generic drugs, documented how industry distorted the science surrounding the plastics compound BPA and uncovered a pattern of…
Actor Kelsey Grammer is one of the backers of a new on-demand and online network that will be ” ‘pro-America,’ ‘pro-business [and] pro-military sensibilities’ that will ultimately invite conversation and influence ‘the national conversation,’ ” according to the New York Daily News….
Chad Hurley, co-founder and chief executive officer of YouTube, sees the growing use of Wi-Fi equipped devices as a great thing for YouTube, as the video site giant looks to be seen on the same level as television, the Telegraph…
Apple’s chief executive office Steve Jobs, responding to a customer’s email about a rejected iPhone application from Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Mike Fiore, said it was a mistake to reject the app, the New York Times reports. Fiore, who draws animated…
U.S. DVD rental revenue dropped 14% in this year’s first quarter from last year’s, adding another worry to a rocky home entertainment business, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Digital Entertainment Group, which furnishes the statistics, didn’t provide revenue amounts…