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Health data
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Investigating, localizing salmonella outbreak
As some of you may have noticed, there’s an egg recall going on. It all began when the CDC’s PulseNet…
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Heisel’s ‘Doctors Behaving Badly’ goes viral
As anybody who follows the Reporting on Health blog knows, William Heisel’s virtual roadshow of physician background research has been…
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EPA changes would improve public access to data
A recent OMB Watch story covers the EPA’s latest attempt to leverage the Toxic Substances Control Act to make it…
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Missouri data disclosure details infection fight
Missouri law requires hospitals to disclose infection rates for intensive care and certain surgeries. It doesn’t keep that data around…
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CDC releases 2007 foodborne illness numbers
In the latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC has released the 2007 numbers on foodborne illness in the…
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Tougher concussion rules from high school assn.
The National Federation of State High School Associations has released tougher rules about removing players with potential concussions from the…
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Forum offers stats on well-being of elderly
AgingStats.gov is an often-overlooked federal clearinghouse of aging-related data from the Federal Interagency Forum on Age-Related Statistics. It focuses on…
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Tracking Canada’s asbestos funding
Fallout from Dangers in the Dust, the mammoth asbestos investigation by the BBC and the Center for Public Integrity/International Consortium…
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Reporters encounter hospital’s lack of transparency
Blythe Bernhard and Jeremy Kohler of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch investigated a string of serious mistakes at a local hospital…
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Doctors certified to use strokebuster don’t
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s John Fauber used data from the Joint Commission to discover that a clot-busting drug that could…