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Boulton explains comparative effectiveness
Next time somebody asks why the stimulus plan included $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research (and where all that money’s…
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24,000 Memphis patients rated their doctors
The Healthy Memphis Common Table is an effort to help patients and providers take charge of improving the city’s health.…
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State NAMI chapters got pharma money too
Wall Street Journal health blogger Katherine Hobson writes that, according to an investigation by Sen. Chuck Grassley, state chapters of…
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Hensley explores HIT-related privacy breaches
NPR health blogger Scott Hensley writes that the HHS’ running list of “breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500…
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Journalists diet and write about it
Personal anecdotes seem to seep into the blogs of just about every health care journalist out there; given the subject…
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Sapien chronicles formaldehyde battle
At ProPublica, Joaquin Sapien tells the story of how Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter successfully obstructed the FDA’s attempts to…
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Residents not warned of nursing home foreclosures
Writing for The New York Times, Laurie Udesky reports that despite significant rates of foreclosures, California nursing homes are not…
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Deconstructing a NYT op-ed in three acts
On April 17, New York Times‘ op-ed columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a column about globalization, international competition and entrepreneurship. Here,…
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#AHCJ2010 early coverage roundup
Apart from the announcement of the FDA’s infusion pump regulation push, the biggest appearances out of Health Journalism 2010 in…
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FDA steps up regulation of infusion pumps (#AHCJ2010)
Infusion pumps, a widely varied class of devices which typically mete out precise, time-delayed doses through IVs and related means,…