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Wisconsin’s low Medicaid fees create dental woes
The Wisconsin State Journal‘s David Wahlberg reports that access to adequate dental care is a major public health issue throughout…
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Panel: Media share blame for health-care costs
The American Society of News Editors and the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making brought experts and editors together to…
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Slow-to-pay insurers may become national issue
For The News Journal of Wilmington, Del., Hiran Ratnayake dug through more than 100 complaints filed last year against the…
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Insider offers view of health innovation
Blogging for the Harvard Business Review, Simon Stevens (chairman of the UnitedHealth Center for Health Policy & Modernization) seeks to…
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Tanning beds: What do the numbers really mean?
This is a guest post from Ivan Oransky, M.D., editor of Reuters Health and AHCJ’s treasurer, written at my invitation.…
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Agenda indicates federal health priorities
This week, OMB Watch brought our attention to the recently released “Current Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions,” which…
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Newly released data reveals inappropriate use of antipsychotics in nursing homes
Kay Lazar and Matt Carroll of The Boston Globe have written about nursing homes that use “antipsychotic drugs to control…
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#AHCJ2010 early coverage roundup
Apart from the announcement of the FDA’s infusion pump regulation push, the biggest appearances out of Health Journalism 2010 in…
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Oregonian re-injects meaning into reform clichés
The Oregonian‘s Joe Rojas-Burke clearly has a keen eye for that special place at which jargon and cliché intersect, and…
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Cohn’s reform-minded blog comes to an end
The New Republic‘s Jonathan Cohn, an AHCJ member, announced Monday that he’s closing up shop at The Treatment, the “crusading”…