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Refusal to vaccinate puts others at risk
The Marin Independent Journal‘s Rob Rogers, reporting from a county where an above-average number of parents ask to exempt their…
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Moon on Medicare reform, supplmental insurance
As part of her Excluded Voices series in the Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors,…
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FDA cracks down on drug-sponsored links
Medical Marketing & Media‘s Matthew Arnold reports that the FDA’s marketing and advertising wing asked a number of major drug…
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Lack of health literacy can be fatal
Pauline Chen, M.D., wrote in The New York Times about “health literacy,” arguing that both patients and doctors share the…
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State’s paid promotions appear to be newscasts
Tulsa World reporter Kim Archer found that the state of Oklahoma paid a media conglomerate $3 million in exchange for…
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Fla. painkiller industry flourishes, supplies nation
The Miami Herald‘s Scott Hiaasen delved into South Florida’s massive painkiller industry, one which, enabled by loose laws and lax…
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N.J. psychiatric hospital botches drugs, doses
Jean Mikle of the Asbury Park Press chronicled medication errors at Ancora Psychiatric Hospital, New Jersey’s largest such institution. Mikle…
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Obama announces Office of Health Policy
President Barack Obama has, by executive order, established an Office of Health Policy in the White House, with a parallel…
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Two vaccines keeping kids out of ERs
Maryn McKenna writes in Annals of Emergency Medicine that the impressive recent success of rotavirus and pneumococcus vaccines has caused…
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Marketing treats risk factors as diseases
Maryann Napoli writes in the American Journal of Nursing that “in the name of prevention, millions of Americans have accepted…