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Government
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Hensley: New FDA chief looks to be tough
According to NPR Health Blog’s Scott Hensley, newly confirmed FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg sounds like she means business. Hamburg vowed…
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Making sense of Health Policy rumors
The New York Times‘ Robert Pear and David M. Herszenhorn do their best to help regular folks understand the increasingly…
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Collins unanimously confirmed as head of NIH
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., has been unanimously confirmed as director of the National Institutes of Health, HHS Secretary Kathleen…
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FDA opposes antibiotics overuse in animal feeding
Citing the dangers of drug-resistant microbes, newly appointed Food and Drug Administration chief Joshua Sharfstein testified against the over-use of…
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Reform coverage that raises important questions
AHCJ president Trudy Lieberman, writing for CJR.org, points to several stories about health care reform that raise important questions about…
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DoD campaigns against stigma of depression, PTSD
The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury’s new Real Warriors campaign is designed to aid…
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Available data on children falls short
David Crary of the Associated Press writes about weak, outdated and insufficient data in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual…
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Medical defense focuses on anthrax, H1N1
Project BioShield was formed because the United States government felt it needed to support the development of “medical countermeasures” such…
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NIH on Wikipedia: If you can’t beat ’em…
The Washington Post‘s Ibby Caputo reports that the National Institutes of Health, upon realizing that more folks are looking for…
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Government a ‘game changer’ in health IT
In the knowledge management magazine KM World, Nancy Davis Kho evaluates the Obama administration’s push for health information technology, focusing…