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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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Primer prepares reporters for Supreme Court review of Health Policy
Back in 2009, when critics of what was then a Health Policy bill, not a Health Policy law, muttered about…
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Retirement center modifies dining policy following media coverage
Stories by The New York Times and The Virginian-Pilot about discriminatory dining room practices at a continuing care retirement center…
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Find out how demographic shifts affect the aging community in your area
The population of people 65 and older is growing, but not equally across the United States. Some cities are experiencing…
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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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Women’s health and the ACA: Look beyond contraception
If you have been listening to the contraception debate in Washington (sort of hard to avoid, isn’t it?), you may…
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Belluck shows us dementia behind the prison walls
Dementia is a harrowing illness. Mix it with life in prison and you get a truly alarming situation. Pam Belluck…
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Case could set precedent for regulating stem cells
On Forbes.com, Gergana Koleva digs deep into the ongoing court battle between Regenerative Sciences and the FDA over the question…
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Dining decision brings discrimination issues in aging to forefront; lessons for reporters
Paula Span of The New York Times clearly struck a nerve with her recent story about an upscale retirement community’s…
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States responsible for health insurance exchanges for small businesses
Most of us know that in 2014, states will open health insurance exchanges (or the federal government will run a…