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Government
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Open government directive bears fruit, databases
In December, 2009 Peter Orszag, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, issued an Open Government Directive…
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Health Policy and the Supreme Court
Sarasota Health News‘ David Gulliver and Health News Florida’s Mary Jo Melone considered exactly how last Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling…
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How Health Policy lost popular support
Kaiser Health News staff writers, including Jordan Rau, Mary Agnes Carey, Julie Appleby and Phil Galewitz, teamed up to figure…
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Myth surrounds reform’s ‘Safeway Amendment’
Throughout the health care reform process, politicians have held up Safeway’s health incentive program as a model for future government…
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FDA launches transparency site with help of tongue depressor
In the first step of a planned three-part transparency initiative, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has rolled out FDA…
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GAO looks at ‘extraordinary’ drug price hikes
In a new report (pdf), the Government Accountability Office looks into what caused hundreds of extraordinary increases in prescription drug…
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Groups give Obama “A” for openness despite barriers between journalists, federal experts
A coalition of reform groups, including Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters and U.S. PIRG, recently issued…
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Report looks at disclosure of adverse events
Adverse events that harm patients are publicly reported unevenly, according to a report from the inspector general for the Department…
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FDA documents for most-popular drugs not online
Nancy Watzman, writing for the Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group, has found that, because the Food and Drug Administration only makes…
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GAO looks into why nursing home evals are flawed
The Government Accountability Office has followed up its May 2008 report that found a high level of inconsistency in nursing…