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Does stimulus-funded research stimulate?
Reporter Michelle Breidenbach of the Syracuse, N.Y., Post-Standard considers local academic research being funded by stimulus money and wonders just…
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Canada takes Monsanto, Dow’s word on safety
Martin Mittelstaedt of the Toronto Globe and Mail looks into the Canadian government’s approval of “one of the most complicated…
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Insurance industry positioned to profit from reform
In BusinessWeek, Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein write that major insurance companies have already succeeded in defining the debate over…
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More fact checking on health care reform
The Associated Press’ Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar explains the proposed counseling about end-of-life care that’s contained in the health care reform legislation.…
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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…