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Picturing a better life: FSD uses video for the benefit of Missourians
Missouri families who need some extra help – due to loss of a job, a health crisis, or long-term physical disability – often turn to the...
Sep 10, 20182 min read
Honoring a leader: teacher and scholar Christina Zarcadoolas is 2018 Doak Health Literacy Champion
Christina Zarcadoolas, Ph.D. at one and the same time is a 1980s “first generation” health literacy scholar and one of today’s innovators...
Sep 6, 20183 min read
How health literacy can improve clinical trials: Increasing understanding, relevance, and usability
At Health Literacy Media’s Clearly Communicating Clinical Trials (C3T), we’ve designed and conducted research, written summaries of...
Sep 4, 20183 min read
Who is leading the way in health literacy?
Nominate a Missouri Health Literacy Trailblazer Health Literacy Media is accepting nominations for the 2018 Missouri Health Literacy...
Aug 30, 20181 min read
Kidney transplant: partnering with providers, empowering patients
We work with health care providers from a wide variety of disciplines to improve patient care through health literacy – it’s what we do....
Aug 9, 20182 min read
National HIV Testing Day
Written by Brennan Keiser | HLM Summer 2018 Intern Every year on June 27th, we recognize National HIV Testing Day to encourage all United...
Jun 27, 20183 min read
5 ways we set our staff up to succeed in our walking challenge this summer
We’re not sure which is more exhausting – exercising or listening to people tell us how important it is to exercise! We are sure,...
Jun 19, 20182 min read
HLM + Sanofi Genzyme
Sanofi Genzyme’s sponsorship of many of HLM’s family of resources is but one example of their consistent commitment to and support of...
Jun 2, 20181 min read
The intersection of health literacy and mental health
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This is particularly important to us at Health Literacy Media because mental health conditions...
May 29, 20182 min read
3 ways we help partners clearly communicate with their audiences to help advance health equity
For far too long, racial and ethnic minorities and underserved communities have experienced health disparities – negative impacts of...
Apr 27, 20182 min read
It’s time to get your new and improved kidney transplant education materials!
Did you hear? Explore Transplant and Explore Living Donation education has been fully revised with evidence-based health literacy best...
Apr 10, 20181 min read
Talk about the winter blues in a health-literate way
As the weather gets cold and the days stay short, many people struggle with negative emotions like stress and depression. So how can we...
Jan 11, 20182 min read
UNOS Kidney Transplant Learning Center: a new gold standard for transplant education
Health Literacy Media (HLM) is thrilled to announce the launch of a comprehensive UNOS Kidney Transplant Learning Center (KTLC) at...
Jan 8, 20183 min read
Using analogies to explain premiums to a new health insurance consumer
It’s open enrollment season for the Affordable Care Act, and many people are getting health insurance for the very first time. We’ve...
Nov 15, 20171 min read
Top-ranking US Coast Guard culinary specialist and master chief to lead cooking workshops
Community members in the small Missouri towns of Salem and Hannibal will have the unique opportunity to attend a cooking workshop hosted...
Mar 23, 20172 min read
UnitedHealthcare focus groups: Medicaid and health care access in rural Southeast Missouri
Anybody can have trouble understanding healthcare and health insurance. We wanted to better understand the problems people face when they...
Jan 17, 20171 min read
Clayton and Candra spread the word about health insurance literacy
We think health insurance is great. But we also know it isn’t exactly the most exciting thing in the world. So we set out to make...
Jan 10, 20171 min read
Explore Transplant (ET) program will merge with HLM
Explore Transplant (ET), the nation’s leading kidney transplant education program, announced this week that it will partner with St....
Jan 5, 20173 min read
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