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Health policy
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Debate roils over effectiveness, ‘rationing’
The Kansas Health Institute’s Dave Ranney attempts to illuminate and explain the fears that research into the comparative effectiveness of…
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Resources for covering flu and pandemics (#swineflu)
As journalists may be preparing to cover the outbreak of swine flu that has been identified in Mexico and the…
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Gaps in evidence drive shared decision-making movement (#ahcj09)
Shared decision making is of public interest – at least to anyone who thinks they might one day go to…
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Credit crisis, IRS changes affect hospital finances (#ahcj09)
If ever there was a time to dig into your local hospital’s finances, this is it, Karl Stark told journalists…
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Today’s Health Policy forum in LA to be webcast
The fifth White House Regional Forum on Health Policy, this time in Los Angeles, is scheduled to begin at 10:30…
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Hospitals, infrastructure focus of World Health Day
The World Health Organization has designated tomorrow (April 7) as World Health Day and this year the WHO is emphasizing…
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Health a factor in report card on homeless kids
The National Center on Family Homelessness has released a report card on child homelessness, with an estimate that more than…
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Covering Obama’s stance on stem cell research
President Barack Obama is expected today to overturn the Bush-era policy that restricted federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.…
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NEJM weighs in on Obama’s budget plan
In a rather measured Perspective piece by correspondent John K. Iglehart, the New England Journal of Medicine expresses admiration for…
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Subsidized programs struggle to attract uninsured
Lori Aratani reported in The Washington Post on the difficulties officials face when working to draw the uninsured into subsidized…