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Health Policy czar was director at troubled firms
Fred Schulte, with the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, reviewed government documents to find that Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of…
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Report, feature focus on state health stats
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has assembled data from the 2008 National…
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Stimulus boosts health care for poor Americans
The Associated Press’s Kristen Wyatt looks at one category of stimulus spending that’s already making an impact: funding for clinics…
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AHCJ speaker writes about physiology of eating
The New York Times‘s Tara Parker-Pope reviewed former FDA chief Dr. David Kessler’s new book, The End of Overeating: Taking…
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HHS: $3,700 out-of-pocket for employer coverage
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the results of a study which found that, on average, Americans pay…
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GAO review finds fault in FDA’s device oversight
The Government Accountability Office looked into how the FDA oversees medical devices and found that it does not review all…
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VA hospitals faulted for lax infection control
The Veterans Affairs health system may be a model for electronic medical records and savvy drug purchasing, but all bets…
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Obama’s AMA talk streamed live
CNN will live stream President Obama’s speech to the American Medical Association at 12:15 p.m. ET. To see it, visit…
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FDA dropped ball on sketchy syringes
According to a report by Christina Jewett of ProPublica and Deborah L. Shelton of the Chicago Tribune, the U.S. Food…
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Report compares reform estimates, finds huge savings
A report from the Health Policy-focused Commonwealth Fund compares costs over the next decade for numerous reform options, using estimates…