The New York Times Reader: Health & Medicine

Below find additional resources to help you explore the ins and outs of your beat. Check out the multimedia packages we couldn't show you in the book and start following your favorite writers via RSS or Twitter.

Follow the Beat | Multimedia Models | Additional Resources

 

Follow the Beat

Columns, beat blogs and writers to add to your health and medicine RSS feed.

Columns and Special Features

• Vital Signs.
• Personal Health.
• Really?
• Times Health Guide. A comprehensive library of medical topics, including in-depth articles on diseases, conditions, tests, symptoms, injuries and surgeries, frequently updated by doctors, medical writers and editors.
• Times Essentials. A series of articles by reporters for The New York Times that provides the latest news on the most common diseases and conditions.

Blogs

• Well Tara Parker-Pope on Health.
• The New Old Age Caring and Coping by Paula Span.
• Prescriptions Making Sense of Health Care Law by Michelle Andrews.
• Consults Experts on the Front Lines of Medicine. Group blog that features a new medical practitioner each week answering readers' questions on a weekly topic.

Writers to Follow

• Tara Parker-Pope (@taraparkerpope)
• Lawrence K. Altman, M.D.
• Gardiner Harris
• Benedict Carey
• Gina Kolata (@ginakolata)
• Anahad O'Connor
• Jane E. Brody
• Dennis Overbye

 

Multimedia Models

Multimedia packages that correspond with stories in the Reader.

• "Explaining the Decline" [graphic]
• "Eating Restrictions" [graphic]
• "Anatomy of a cough" [slideshow]
• "Prescription of Influence" [graphic]
• "Inside the Brain" [graphic]
• "The Flu Virus" [graphic]
• "In Vitro" [graph]
• "Leading killers" [interactive graphic]
• "Autism and Vaccinations" [graphic]
• William S. Altman [photo]
• Push-up [illustration]
• Push-up [video]

 

Additional Resources

Further reading and resources to help you master your beat.

Additional Articles and Sources Cited in the Reader

Arango, Tim, "Fall in Newspaper Sales Accelerates to Pass 7%," The New York Times, April 27, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/business/media/28paper.html.

Bechtel, Andy, "Alternative Story Forms and Copy Editing," The Editor's Desk, Oct. 5, 2007, http://editdesk.blogspot.com/2007/10/alternative-story-forms-and-copy.html.

Collins Glen, "Berton Roueche, Medical Writer For The New Yorker, Dies at 83," The New York Times, April 29, 1994, www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/obituaries/berton-roueche-medical-writer-for-the-new-yorker-dies-at-83.html.

"Eli Lilly Agrees to Settle Zyprexa Marketing Cases," The Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123201838370585347.html.

"Eyetracking the News: A Study of Print & Online Reading," The Poynter Institute, 2008, http://eyetrack.poynter.org.

Franklin, Jon, Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction by a Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner, Plume Books, 1994.

"Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)," United States Department of Justice, www.usdoj.gov/oip/index.html.

Health, United States, 2007, with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 2007.

Kolata, Gina, "Hope in the Lab: A Special Report; A Cautious Awe Greets Drugs That Eradicate Tumors in Mice," The New York Times, May 3, 1998, www.nytimes.com/1998/05/03/us/hope-lab-special-report-cautious-awe-greets-drugs-that-eradicate-tumors-mice.html.

Quinn, Sara Dickenson, "Visual Voice," The Poynter Institute, Sept. 11, 2007, www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=47&aid=129587.

Schmeck, Harold M., Jr., "Dr. Jonas Salk, Whose Vaccine Turned Tide on Polio, Dies at 80," The New York Times, June 24, 1995, www.nytimes.com/1995/06/24/obituaries/dr-jonas-salk-whose-vaccine-turned-tide-on-polio-dies-at-80.html.

Seward, Zachary M, "Top 15 Newspaper Sites of 2008," The Nieman Journalism Lab, www.niemanlab.org/2009/02/top-15-newspaper-sites-of-2008/#more-1881.

Shaw, David, "A Case Study in How a Story Can Set Off a Frenzy," Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2000, http://articles.latimes.com/2000/feb/13/news/mn-64006.

"Talk to the Newsroom, Dennis Overbye, Science Reporter," The New York Times, July 7, 2008, www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/business/media/07askthetimes.html.

Thomas, Lewis, The Medusa and the Snail, Penguin Books, 1995.

Watson, James D., "High Hopes on Cancer," The New York Times, May 7, 1998, www.nytimes.com/1998/05/07/opinion/1-high-hopes-on-cancer-838411.html.