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CJR examines potential, weaknesses of health IT
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors, sought to shed light on the nebulous…
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S.C.: Pandemic plan handled H1N1, needs tweaking
Joey Holleman at The State reviewed South Carolina’s reaction to H1N1 and what it revealed about the state’s pandemic preparedness.…
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Tribune: Lupron to treat autism is ‘junk science’
The Chicago Tribune‘s Trine Tsouderos reports on the growing use of Lupron, a drug sometimes used to chemically castrate sex…
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Blog: H1N1 shows gov’t needs social media
On the blog Social Media Strategery, Michael Dumlao writes about how the rapid viral spread of disinformation about H1N1 showed the…
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Hastings Center debuts ‘Health Care Cost Monitor’
The Hastings Center, an independent bioethics think tank, has launched the ‘Health Care Cost Monitor,’ a blog aimed at covering…
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Baucus: 75-80% chance of Health Policy bill
The Hill‘s Jeffrey Young reports that Montana democrat and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus declared over breakfast that there…
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States use videoconferencing for prison health care
John Gramlich of the state policy-focused nonprofit news organization Stateline.org reports that more states are using videoconferencing for inmate health…
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Kuklo scandal spotlights DoD/Medtronic ties
In the wake of news of a falsified study published in a British bone and joint medicine journal by former…
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VA: Consent forms for human studies incomplete
According to a report released by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, an audit of representative VA…
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FDA relied on industry during BPA approval
Susanne Rust and Meg Kissinger of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel used the federal Freedom of Information Act to obtain and…