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Hospital’s struggle illustrates health IT woes
The University of California San Francisco Medical Center has written off more than a third of the $50 million it…
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HHS blog intended as forum about health IT
The first post on the new Health IT Buzz blog has generated more than 50 comments since it was posted…
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Rounding up some of the latest health coverage
With good topics for the blog flooding in and a short holiday week to get them all posted, I’m taking…
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Archive offers drug industry documents online
In correspondence earlier this month, Kim Klausner, of the University of California, San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management,…
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Prof: Mammogram debate is data vs. anecdotes
When it comes to the recent news that a government task force opposes routine mammograms for women under 50, the…
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Grassley compares ghostwriting, plagiarism
Sen/ Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) continues his investigation of “medical ghostwriting” with a letter to 10 medical schools asking “what they…
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BPA linked to problems in factory workers
Scott Hensley, on NPR’s newly christened “Shots” health blog, points us to a five-year study of men who work in…
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Promoting off-label use is too profitable to ignore
In a special report titled “Big Pharma’s Crime Spree,” David Evans of Bloomberg Markets writes that pharmaceutical companies continue to…
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House holds hearing on brain injuries in NFL
The House of Representatives is holding a hearing on “Legal Issues Relating to Football Head Injuries” that is being webcast…
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Fox’s Stossel to appear at Ark. health-care forums
While plenty of people are paying attention to the Obama administration’s assertions that Fox News is “ideologically predisposed against Obama…