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Government
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Skyrocketing drug price is chance to examine manufacturing, FDA approval process
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter (and Midwest Health Journalism Program Fellow) Jim Doyle has put together a series of stories on KV…
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Should Seattle Superfund site address health as well as pollution?
InvestigateWest’s Carol Smith writes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and InvestigateWest.org that the focus on the environmental disaster of Seattle’s industrial…
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Survey: Only half of federal agencies have better FOI procedures
A report from the Knight Open Government Survey found that, despite some progress, federal agencies are only halfway there when…
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AHCJ leaders hold series of media access meetings with government officials
AHCJ representatives held a series of meetings in Washington, D.C., last week to press for government openness at the state…
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Series reveals gaps in communication of hospital inspection results
Jodie Jackson Jr. of the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune took an in-depth look at patient safety at University Hospital, part…
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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…