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Health policy
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McKenna looks at how superbugs get into food supply
Writing in Self, AHCJ board member Maryn McKenna looks at how drug-resistant bacteria have found their way into the American…
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Ind. parents ‘abandon’ children so they can get mental health care
Reporting for The Times of Northwest Indiana, Marisa Kwiatkowski found that Indiana’s child mental health services are so lacking that,…
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Explaining the numbers behind the Medicaid expansion
One of the questions that I got from colleagues after AHCJ’s post-Supreme Court webcast was about the cutoff for expanded…
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Meth and other drugs overwhelm reservations
New America Media’s Jacob Simas and Two Rivers Tribune‘s Allie Hostler joined forces to examine how the nation’s rural methamphetamine…
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Special, easy-to-get medical credit cards seduce providers, desperate patients
The (Bergen County) Record‘s Lindy Washburn reports on health care professionals who offer specialized credit cards which can cover certain…
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Federal funding of migrant health clinics under fire
Kaiser Health News’ Phil Galewitz spotlights a 50-year-old federal effort to provide health care to migrant farmworkers, one which provides…
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Reuters explains Big Food’s remarkable lobbying success
Investigating for Reuters, Duff Wilson and Janet Roberts analyzed lobbying records and found that, in the past few years, the…
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Network drives increase in painkiller prescriptions
In the latest installment of his ongoing investigation for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today, John Fauber looks for…
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AHCJ calls for accessible reporting of physician payments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should create an easily usable and searchable database when it publishes information from…
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Investigation delves into Wash.’s prescription drug problem
Everything time we think prescription drug abuse stories have peaked, something comes along to push the story further. This time,…