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The Associated Press Stylebook, the foundational journalism guide for how newsrooms report and write their stories, made waves last week when it decreed that “health care” should now be written as one word, not two. The change, announced at the annual ACES: The Society for Editing’s conference, was prompted by shifting usage and years of appeals to make the switch.
STAT closely follows AP style and has used “health care” since its founding in 2015. Now, we have to decide whether to adopt this new guidance, but our newsroom is divided.
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