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Health policy
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Feds want to fight food deserts
The Detroit News‘ Nathan Hurst reports from D.C. on the Healthy Food Financing Initiative, proposed legislation that would commit between…
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Insider offers view of health innovation
Blogging for the Harvard Business Review, Simon Stevens (chairman of the UnitedHealth Center for Health Policy & Modernization) seeks to…
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Agenda indicates federal health priorities
This week, OMB Watch brought our attention to the recently released “Current Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions,” which…
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Boulton explains comparative effectiveness
Next time somebody asks why the stimulus plan included $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research (and where all that money’s…
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Sapien chronicles formaldehyde battle
At ProPublica, Joaquin Sapien tells the story of how Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter successfully obstructed the FDA’s attempts to…
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#AHCJ2010 early coverage roundup
Apart from the announcement of the FDA’s infusion pump regulation push, the biggest appearances out of Health Journalism 2010 in…
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FDA steps up regulation of infusion pumps (#AHCJ2010)
Infusion pumps, a widely varied class of devices which typically mete out precise, time-delayed doses through IVs and related means,…
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Tracking medical errors amid health tech push
Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz are still hot on the trail of health information technology at the Huffington Post Investigative…
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Public records shed light on Texas blood samples
The Texas Tribune‘s Emily Ramshaw got her hands on almost a decade of public e-mails that help show the thoughts…
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Report measures health factors at county level
A county-by-county collection of reports set to be released tomorrow could be a good source for local data on a…