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Multimedia piece explores Philly’s medical history
“Now, why Philly?” That’s how the first stop begins on the interactive map for Marketplace’s “Philadelphia: The Birthplace of Healthcare”…
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Four states refuse to name hyper-prescribing docs
As part of his war against overprescription and fraud, Sen. Charles Grassley asked states to share data on doctors who …
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Heart research hits plateau
Just in time for the American Heart Association’s annual meeting, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter John Fauber offers something of a…
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Quest for profit behind patient safety problems in Las Vegas hospitals
Marshall Allen, of the Las Vegas Sun, continues his look at patient safety in Las Vegas hospitals and has been…
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BMJ exposes UK drugmaker’s astroturf attempt
Pharmalot blogger Ed Silverman reports that, had they not been exposed by BMJ, the UK pharmaceutical company Norgine probably would…
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St. Louis reporters find felons practicing medicine
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch‘s Blythe Bernhard and Jeremy Kohler tell the story of an ophthalmologist to show how a convicted…
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Professor: Research, training can improve South African health journalism
In discussing a large grant his university has received and the center for health journalism that it will fund, South…
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Community-led effort sparks public health wave
Writing in The New York Times, Jessica Reaves writes about how a 2000-06 Chicago community survey embodies the block-by-block, community-reliant…
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Dialysis program: Experiment in socialized medicine comes with high costs, risks
ProPublica’s Robin Fields has put together an artful examination of the nation’s Medicare-funded dialysis system. Part history and part investigation,…
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Calif. hospitals slow to prep for quakes
California Watch health reporter Christina Jewett has found that despite an earthquake readiness push that’s a decade and a half…