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Government
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Grassley list keeps track of press coverage
Chuck Grassley is nothing if not media savvy. The senator from Iowa, who is the ranking Republican on the U.S.…
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Stimulus initiative stirs up controversy
In the Los Angeles Times, Noam N. Levey reviews the controversy that broke out when President Obama included money in…
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Environment of enthusiasm at CDC strikes reporter
Modern Healthcare‘s Jessica Zigmond writes about the enthusiasm she encountered among public health experts at the CDC during the recent…
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AHCJ: Proposal would be blow to public access
Legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 3 “would constitute a blow to the public’s right to…
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NCI’s cancer risk assessor leaves out minorities
In The New York Times, Roni Caryn Rabin took a look at the National Cancer Institute’s new online colorectal cancer…
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How marketing turned Zyprexa into blockbuster
Ben Wallace-Wells of Rolling Stone uses the story of the rise of Zyprexa, Eli Lilly’s blockbuster schizophrenia treatment, to look…
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Stimulus funds study of effectiveness of treatments
Robert Pear reports in The New York Times that $1.1 billion of the $787 billion federal economic stimulus package will…
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Lax oversight, complex supply chains aid outbreaks
In the wake of recent food-borne salmonella outbreaks, Justina Wang of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle found that a combination…
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Doctor suggests reforms to stop foodborne illness
Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dennis G. Maki, M.D. takes a look at foodborne illness, the sources…
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Group tackles shady practices of Calif. insurers
In California Lawyer, Jeanette Borzo tells the story of how Los Angeles city attorneys and a private law firm teamed…