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EU reviewing limits to physician work weeks
The Telegraph‘s Andy Bloxham writes that the European Union’s 48-hour-a-week average working time limit is under review, at least as…
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Taking stock of big pharma in Canada
CBC and Radio-Canada have cooperated to produce a comprehensive look at the nation’s pharmaceutical industry, which centers on Montreal, Canada’s…
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ProPublica finds academic physicians violating schools’ conflict rules
While journalists have been finding innovative ways to use ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs database, the database’s founders, Tracy Weber and…
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Report: Kosovo crime ring executed prisoners, harvested their organs
According to a draft report from the Council of Europe, a criminal network in Kosovo executed prisoners and sold their…
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WSJ details conflicts that drive spine fusion surgery
The Wall Street Journal‘s John Carreyou and Tom McGinty have taken advantage of their paper’s Medicare data stockpile to look…
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Fla. group home’s sex policy raises questions
St. Petersburg Times reporter Justin George has painstakingly assembled the story of a group home for developmentally disabled adult men…
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After 8 years, Quebec’s adverse event reporting law remains unenforceable
The Montreal Gazette‘s Charlie Fidelman has assembled a round-up of what has, and hasn’t, happened in the eight years since…
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ABC News launches global health project
Tonight at 10 Eastern, ABC News anchor Dianne Sawyer will host “Be the Change: Save a Life,” a program which…
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N.J. taxpayers pay tab on illegal steroids
Without further ado, here are links to the three parts of the enormous (both in length and import) “Strong at…
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Journalist-turned-doctor combats high lab prices
On CNN’s Health page, Jim Kavanagh profiled Dr. Doug Lefton, a man who has gone from newspaper reporter to physician…