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CURE magazine earns Trailblazer Award
CURE magazine, a free, patient-oriented health publication which employs four AHCJ members, was named “Best Consumer Healthcare Publication” by PM360…
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Calif. hospitals slow to prep for quakes
California Watch health reporter Christina Jewett has found that despite an earthquake readiness push that’s a decade and a half…
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Lieberman: Election is evidence media got reform coverage wrong
In her column on CJRorg, AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman writes that this week’s elections showed just how thoroughly…
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How numbers can be used to buttress falsehoods
On The New York Times‘ Well blog, Tara Parker-Pope interviewed NYU journalism professor Charles Seife, author of Proofiness: The Dark…
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Video, presentations from comparative effectiveness conference available online
Earlier this month, ECRI’s 17th annual conference tackled the thorniest detail of comparative effectiveness research, namely that it’s rarely a…
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In herbal remedies, labels don’t match contents
With the help of researchers who put together herbal DNA barcodes, PBS NewsHour’s Paul Solman found out just how often…
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Alzheimer’s and caregivers’ difficult decisions
Writing for the AARP Bulletin, Chris Woolston drills straight to the core of the pain felt by folks caring for…
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13 years of warnings, FDA inaction behind seizure
U.S. marshals seized a number of drug products from a small New Jersey pharmaceutical manufacturer called Tri-Med laboratories earlier this…
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Days numbered for UK’s arbiter of comparative effectiveness
While comparative effectiveness research in the United States is booming thanks to the stimulus, a United Kingdom bastion of the…
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GAO evaluates FDA’s overseas inspectors
A couple of new GAO reports are seeking to shed some light on the FDA’s overseas regulatory efforts. The first…