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Children
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AHRQ details spending on health care
Among recent releases from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, its data on who’s spending what on health care…
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Calif. program of bundled dental care for children gets a checkup
About 18 years ago, California implemented a program of “geographic managed care” for children’s dental coverage in Sacramento. Now, in…
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Leaded aviation fuel a threat to public health, children
KUOW’s John Ryan used federal data and a few key sources to delve deep into issues surrounding one of the…
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Investigation delves into Wash.’s prescription drug problem
Everything time we think prescription drug abuse stories have peaked, something comes along to push the story further. This time,…
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Antipsychotic use booms among Canadian kids
Writing for The Vancouver Sun and Postmedia News, Sharon Kirkey and Pamela Fayerman, report that, in an environment where the…
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Agency re-posts National Practitioner Data Bank file, but restrictions draw fire
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration today republished the public version of the National Practitioner Data Bank, after intense…
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Find health data at Childstats.gov, a clearinghouse for kid numbers
Time to add another link to your “federal data clearinghouses” folder, if you haven’t already. Childstats.gov, published by the Federal…
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Battle against childhood obesity is complicated
Maureen O’Hagan and her colleagues at The Seattle Times have put together a sprawling package of stories on the fight…
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Fla. juvenile justice system relies on heavy antipsychotic use
In looking into the state Department of Juvenile Justice’s use of powerful prescription antipsychotics, The Palm Beach Post‘s Michael LaForgia…
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Unlocking the brain’s response to trauma, violence
Scott Johnson of The Oakland Tribune writes about the science of chronic trauma and puts it in the perspective of…