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AP takes on medical costs of overtreatment
The AP’s Lauran Neergaard has taken on medical overtreatment in America in the first two parts of a six-part series,…
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Military slow to treat mild traumatic brain injury
ProPublica‘s T. Christian Miller and NPR‘s Daniel Zwerdling have found unpublished military documents which indicate that tens of thousands of…
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Physician-owned hospitals: Restricting us is unconstitutional!
The National Law Journal’s Tresa Baldas has the details of a suit filed by physician-owned hospital advocacy and ownership groups…
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House nixes COBRA help, opens “jungle”
On Prepared Patient Forum, AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman examined the fallout of the Friday House vote to toss…
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GAO sting spotlights sketchy herbal meds
Undercover sting operation reports may not be the meatiest documents released by the Government Accountability Office, but they’re almost always…
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Practical concerns facing NPs in rural areas
Susan Presley, writing for the American Journal of Nursing, examines the role nurse practitioners are playing in addressing the well-documented…
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Calif. dental care crisis could get worse
Laurie Udesky, writing for The New York Times, has found that that pediatric dental care in the state has reached…
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Package spotlights maternal health in 5 countries
The team at the Pulitzer Gateway (a site from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) have turned their focus toward…
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Lead poisoning hurts Detroit kids’ academics
Detroit Free Press reporters Tina Lam and Kristi Tanner-White report that data compiled by the city shows that “More than…
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GAO evaluates youth concussion databases
In a recent report, the Goverment Accountability Office reviewed national efforts to track concussions in youth sports (highlights). The report…