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Review: Doctors experimented on healthy people
The Associated Press’ Mike Stobbe found more than 40 instances of doctors making patients sick for the sake of experimentation…
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Members’ investigations prompt bills in Wash.
Three health-related bills moving through the Washington legislature came about as a result of articles reported by AHCJ members at…
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NEHI maps out future of comparative effectiveness
NEHI, a nonprofit research group that was known as the New England Healthcare Institute, has released a white paper mapping…
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Senators join fight to open Medicare claims data
Two senators have joined the effort to open up the Medicare claims database that reveals what payments doctors get through…
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MSNBC: FDA had concerns 2 years before alcohol wipe outbreak, didn’t act
JoNel Aleccia and the folks at MSNBC.com have dug in deep on news of the FDA’s Jan. 5 recall of…
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Wash. hospital executive salaries may threaten nonprofit status
KUOW’s John Ryan, who has been using public records to investigate pay for nonprofit hospital executives, dove deeper into the…
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AHCJ asks FDA to re-evaluate embargo policy
The Association of Health Care Journalists has sent a letter to FDA officials asking them to re-examine a policy that…
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Fauber: FDA to review data on jaw implants
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s reporter John Fauber reports on the FDA’s order to review the long-term performance of certain joint…
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NIH, CMS chiefs to speak at Newsmaker Briefings
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health, and Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., administrator for…
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More antipsychotics prescribed to foster children
Need To Know, the PBS newsmagazine, recently took a look at the use of antipsychotics in foster children. Shoshana Guy’s…