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- Nov 11, 2021
- 4 min
Tips for health care providers: How to talk to parents about the COVID-19 vaccine for younger kids
If you’re a health care provider in 2021, you’re probably having countless conversations with patients about the COVID-19 vaccine. With...
- Nov 10, 2021
- 3 min
How we're protecting our team from COVID-19 back in the office
Here are some of the ways we're protecting ourselves and others from COVID-19 as we return to the office!
- Oct 21, 2021
- 1 min
HLM's approach to health literacy
Health literacy is more than replacing jargon with words everyone understands or teaching patients to ask questions of health care...
- Oct 14, 2021
- 1 min
Defining health literacy
Definitions of health literacy have dramatically evolved since the World Health Organization proposed what many consider the first...
- Oct 1, 2021
- 1 min
Happy Health Literacy Month
It's our favorite time of the year: Health Literacy Month! We've been creating quality and engaging #healthliteracy content and we'll be...
- Oct 30, 2020
- 3 min
Teach, don’t preach: instilling health literacy principles from a patient’s perspective
Guest post from Carly Flumer, MS, Scientific Data Analyst at National Cancer Institute My doctor flipped his piece of paper over and...
- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
HLM Healthy Steps is back!
We’re bringing HLM Healthy Steps back, and making it even better than before! Join us!
- Jun 8, 2020
- 1 min
Racial justice and health literacy: our commitment
At Health Literacy Media, we join the chorus of voices speaking out against racism. We recognize that people of color are systematically...
- Jun 28, 2019
- 3 min
Steve Pu, D.O., founding visionary of Health Literacy Media and board president, dies at 67
By HLM Staff | June 27, 2019 Steve Pu, D.O., a general surgeon and wound care specialist who helped create the organization that would...
- Jun 12, 2019
- 4 min
The stars of theory
When an innovative new health literacy initiative needed a strong theoretical foundation, Will Ross was there for it. 10 years later, he...
- May 22, 2019
- 3 min
QIP Changes Are Coming in 2020—Is Your Dialysis Center Ready? The Kidney Transplant Toolkit Can Help
For professionals in nephrology, dialysis, and transplant: A discussion of CMS ESRD QIP changes that could impact your funding and the...
- May 3, 2019
- 2 min
Kidney transplant training in our own backyard
We've been thrilled with the national response to our Explore Transplant trainings, but thanks to our partners here in St. Louis, we've...
- Apr 15, 2019
- 2 min
Come walk with us!
We're celebrating 10 years with a walking challenge. Did you hear that HLM is celebrating our 10th anniversary this year? And what better...
- Apr 8, 2019
- 4 min
10 years of health literacy: changes and constants in an evolving field
Guest blog from Health Literacy Media Board President Steve Pu, D.O. Ironically, it all started in Atlanta. My involvement with the...
- Mar 28, 2019
- 2 min
Digital health care doesn’t have to mean hands-off health care
With nearly 20,000 FDA-approved medicines currently on the market, and close to a quarter of Americans taking 3 or more prescription...
- Mar 21, 2019
- 2 min
Supporting patients with impactful information on the web for clinical research
From recruitment to reporting, biopharma companies are branching out in their efforts to reach patients directly about their clinical...
- Dec 21, 2018
- 4 min
Advancing health literate education for kidney transplant and living donation
The game of chess starts with the opener- a set of moves that, to the untrained eye, might seem mundane and inconsequential. To the...
- Nov 21, 2018
- 2 min
What we're thankful for
The days have grown shorter and colder. We’ve even had a rare November snow here in St. Louis. With winter approaching and Thanksgiving...
- Nov 6, 2018
- 2 min
Health literacy: Celebrating paths to improving health
Health Literacy Media capped off the internationally-celebrated Health Literacy Month by honoring individuals and organizations for their...
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