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Bedbug complaints proliferate in New York City
Bedbug complaints are on the rise in the Big Apple, reports Adam Lisberg in the New York Daily News. Complaints…
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Subsidized programs struggle to attract uninsured
Lori Aratani reported in The Washington Post on the difficulties officials face when working to draw the uninsured into subsidized…
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$150 billion of stimulus headed to health care
Dr. Robert Steinbrook broke down health care’s share of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – also known as the…
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Attorneys: Rule stifles nursing home accountability
Cindy Skrzycki reports in The Washington Post on the effects of a Bush administration rule classifying nursing home-related state inspectors…
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Self-insured groups may encourage medical tourism
Joy Robertson looked into medical tourism and posted her findings on Ozarksfirst.com, the Web site of Springfield, Mo.-based stations KOLR…
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New Vegas center aims to cure Alzheimer’s
Marshall Allen of the Las Vegas Sun covered the planned opening of Cleveland Clinic Lou Revo Center for Brain Health.…
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NCI’s cancer risk assessor leaves out minorities
In The New York Times, Roni Caryn Rabin took a look at the National Cancer Institute’s new online colorectal cancer…
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How marketing turned Zyprexa into blockbuster
Ben Wallace-Wells of Rolling Stone uses the story of the rise of Zyprexa, Eli Lilly’s blockbuster schizophrenia treatment, to look…
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Stimulus funds study of effectiveness of treatments
Robert Pear reports in The New York Times that $1.1 billion of the $787 billion federal economic stimulus package will…
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Jost discusses consumer-driven health plans
In the latest installment of the Columbia Journalism Review‘s “Excluded Voices” series, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors,…