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Health data
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Online chat focuses on lobbying, health care reform
The folks at opensecrets.org, from the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics, will take their commitment to following the money through…
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Reporter digs up Seattle hospital salaries
John Ryan of KUOW News in Seattle used publicly available data and records requests to localize the national debate on…
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New CDC tool tracks environmental health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have created what they refer to as an online Environmental Public Health Tracking…
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22 percent of kids’ hospital visits sports related
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has sifted through the numbers in the 2006 report “Sports Injuries in Children…
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FDA rethinks ‘black box’ warning
Quitting smoking, always nerve-racking, may prove even tougher in the wake of a Food and Drug Administration decision to require…
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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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Let the comparison shopping begin
The august Institute of Medicine is out with academic medicine’s answer to the Billboard Hot 100. A panel of experts…
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STATS: Media ignored science in BPA coverage
In a review of American media coverage of the controversy of bisphenol A, researchers at STATS (a nonprofit, nonpartisan Statistical…
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Gawande responds to critics of health cost piece
Atul Gawande, M.D., who recently wrote a much-discussed article about health care costs, has responded to his critics in a…
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Dartmouth Atlas: Powerful when used right
The Dartmouth Atlas contains detailed information on regional variations in health care spending and use and therefore has the potential…