Independent Journalist

Charlotte Huff covered medical news on staff at several daily newspapers and now reports freelance for magazines and online publications. She can tackle an array of writing styles—profiles, trend pieces, and narratives. Her favorite assignments explore the interplay between science, money, ethics, and, above all, the power of patient stories to shed light on health care.

Recent Work

PERENNIAL FAVORITES:

Travels to the Rio Grande Valley to report on the lack of cancer care, for KFF Health News, and later to shadow a medical school's drive to get more reliable contraception to underserved women, for Undark. (My KFF Health News portfolio can be checked out here.)
An in-depth look at how lightning strikes injure the body, both the science and the stories that survivors in the southwest U.S., as well as the heart-stopping reality of cardiac arrest, both for the sadly departed British publication Mosaic Science.
Profiles, such as a look at a West Texas hospital CEO who beat the odds for rural hospital survival in his hometown, and a surgeon who operated on babies with spina bifida in utero, while for years keeping her own diagnosis secret, both for STAT.

Cancer Today | Shame can buffet cancer patients in numerous ways, slowing diagnosis, what they share with others, and long-term recovery.

Medscape | "Gold card" programs were supposed to ease prior authorization for physicians, but the Texas experience may signal inherent limits.

AHCJ Conference | Enjoyed speaking on an American Health Care Journalists' panel this spring about the pros and cons of developing a reporting niche.

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