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Government
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Share your thoughts on database design for tracking pharma payments to doctors
Curtis Brainard of Columbia Journalism Review reminds reporters that their input is needed on the design of a federal database…
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Reuters shows how shell companies hide Medicare fraud in plain sight
Reporting for Reuters, Brian Grow and Matthew Bigg used an analysis of public data to investigate the practice of using…
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AHCJ opposes taking taxpayer-funded research out of public’s reach
Congress should not roll back public access to taxpayer-funded research reports, AHCJ wrote in a letter to members of Congress…
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BMJ analysis reveals widespread publication/selection bias in research
Reporting on a study released by BMJ and characterized as an almost existential threat to the medical research system by…
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Why are rural Westerners killing themselves?
Writing for ABC News, Alan Farnham seeks to explain the jump in suicide rates in the rural American West, particularly…
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‘Doc fix’ flies in the face of rewarding quality, not quantity, of treatment
One of the last things that Congress did before finally getting out of town a few days before Christmas was…
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Kidney disease kills thousands in sugar cane fields
In The Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News, Sasha Chavkin and Ronnie Greene write that, “Little noticed by the rest…
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Journalism organizations ask HRSA to clarify how it will exercise restrictions
The Association of Health Care Journalists and five other journalism organizations asked federal health officials this week to specify how…
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Tsouderos looks at federal funding of alternative medicine
In her latest series, Chicago Tribune reporter Trine Tsouderos, whose award-winning reporting has brought her hard-nosed approach to investigating less-proven…
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Secrecy around data bank protects ‘Practitioner No. 222117’
Alan Bavley of The Kansas City Star provides us with a stark illustration of why new restrictions on the use…