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Health data
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GAO: Four percent of nursing homes are troubled
A new report from the Government Accountability Office report estimates that 580, or 4 percent, of America’s approximately 16,000 nursing…
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Census data on insurance coverage: The recap
The Census Bureau couldn’t have timed the release of its first American Community Survey data on health insurance coverage in…
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Project looks at high price of health care in Dallas
In their “The Cost of Care” package, Dallas Morning News reporters seek to explain why, as Jim Landers says in…
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NYT investigates Clean Water Act violations
In the latest installment of The New York Times‘ Toxic Waters series, Charles Duhigg says that, for this investigation, the…
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Ghostwriting: Journals’ dirty, not-so-little secret
The New York Times‘ Duff Wilson and Natasha Singer reported the results of a Journal of the American Medical Association…
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H1N1 will challenge public health policymakers
On his Cold Truth blog, Andrew Schneider questions some H1N1-related public health decisions while acknowledging the difficulties policymakers are bound…
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Primer on reform draws from AHCJ presentation
Sarasota Health News reporter and editor David Gulliver released his own evaluation of health care reform, drawing on the Dartmouth…
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Access to list of disciplined health workers in limbo
NPR’s Joseph Shapiro looked into the status of the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank, a database of nurses, nurse…
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Polls, studies used to compare U.S., Canada care
The Associated Press’ Charmaine Noronha takes another look at the Canadian health care system, focusing on the debate over its…
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USA Today matches hospital quality data, tourism
USA Today‘s Steve Sternberg and Jack Gillum put a new spin on federal Hospital Compare ratings and other hospital quality…