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Government
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Mental health parity law implementation evolves
Writing for Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post, Sandra Boodman considers the effect that the American mental health parity…
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FDA to regulate health information technology?
Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund duo who have made it their business to stay in…
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OPM: Don’t restrict our pharmacy contracts
“Nearly 30 percent of the government’s $39 billion health plan goes to cover prescription drugs,” writes Stephen Losey of Federal…
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Health care summit streaming live
President Barack Obama is hosting a bipartisan meeting to discuss health care reform. The meeting, from 10 a.m. until 4…
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Analysis reveals who hired health care lobbyists
The Center for Public Integrity has put together an interesting analysis and graph of what interests were lobbying on health…
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FCC’s broadband plan includes wireless health tech
The Federal Communications Commission will release a report next month outlining a national broadband plan that is expected to include…
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Calif. maternal death on rise, according to report
Citing investigators who wrote a yet-to-be-released report, Nathanael Johnson of California Watch reports that the “mortality rate of California women…
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More vets come home as result of psychiatric issues
On Shots, NPR’s Health Blog, Nadja Popovich reports on a recent Johns Hopkins study that found, more troops were evacuated…
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Is U.S. ready for Haiti-style mass casualty event?
The GAO’s latest release, “State Efforts to Plan for Medical Surge Could Benefit from Shared Guidance for Allocating Scarce Medical…
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Gawande, Google and health systems analysis
Earlier this month, New Yorker writer and surgeon Atul Gawande brought his checklist gospel (video) to the President’s Council of…