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Lack of performance info difficult for patients, docs
Harlan Krumholz, M.D., writes in The Washington Post that, while better quantitative monitoring would greatly improve the experiences of both…
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Diabetes study ups ante for comparing treatments
Of all the potential reforms to the health-care system, one of the most profound might turn out to be a…
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Health costs lurk behind middle-class bankruptcies
Medical bills and gaps in health coverage are wreaking havoc on the finances of the middle class, say researchers who…
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Pharmacists could be ‘patient coaches’ for a price
A chance to reform health care is also a chance for some folks to make a case for a bigger…
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Mass., Tenn. provide test cases for federal reform
AP Medical Writer Carla K. Johnson takes a look at health care reform in Massachusetts and Tennessee and how the…
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Two communities, two tales of health care costs
In The New Yorker, Atul Gawande, M.D., looks at how the United States can contain the rising cost of health…
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Dental malpractice suit shows gaps in information
A web of confidentiality, state politics and gag clauses conspired to conceal a malpractice case settled in 2005 by Dental…
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Hastings Center debuts ‘Health Care Cost Monitor’
The Hastings Center, an independent bioethics think tank, has launched the ‘Health Care Cost Monitor,’ a blog aimed at covering…
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Baucus: 75-80% chance of Health Policy bill
The Hill‘s Jeffrey Young reports that Montana democrat and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus declared over breakfast that there…
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Big names in health care reform convene for panel
The BIO International Convention, described on its Web site as the largest global event for the biotechnology industry, will bring…