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Health journalism
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X-ray regulation, inspections a patchwork
The Investigative Reporting Workshop’s Caroline Stetler explains what she calls “the patchwork regulation of technicians who perform imaging exams,” and…
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Did PLoS suffer from COI in ghostwriting article?
Remember that examination of Wyeth (now Pfizer)’s ghostwriting practices that ran in PLoS Medicine a few weeks back? Well, Pharmalot’s…
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Canadian government obstructs journalists’ access
Writing in Nature News, Kathryn O’Hara celebrates Right to Know Week by declaring that “the information policies of Conservative Prime…
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AP lawyer: Be aggressive in using FOIA
Karen Kaiser, an attorney who leads the FOIA legal work for The Associated Press, spoke about the importance of the…
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German HealthNewsReview to launch in November
Medien-Doktor.de, the German version of America’s HealthNewsReview.org and Australia’s pioneering Media Doctor site is set to launch in November. Gary…
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Fellow, veteran reporter is ‘miles ahead’ after day 1
He’s only been in New York for a day, and David Gulliver, already appears to be a big fan of…
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Doctors quietly get millions from device makers
The Archives of Internal Medicine recently published a study on conflict of interest disclosures by surgeons receiving more than $1…
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New CME provider eschews industry money
Medical Marketing & Media‘s Marc Iskowitz profiles a new continuing medical education provider, Lighthouse Learning. Started by a Harvard neurologist…
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Health reporting and one researcher’s pet peeves
Dorothy Bishop, neuropsychology professor and occasional science/academics blogger (bio), ruminates on what she calls the “uneasy alliance” between science and…
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Mason wins NASW award for drug resistance series
AHCJ member and Associated Press reporter Margie Mason won the science reporting category of the National Association of Science Writers’…