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Rise, fall of two St. Louis pharma companies
Midwest Health Journalism Program fellow Jim Doyle, a reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, tells the story of Forest Pharmaceuticals…
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Online health info matters because people act on it
Google health industry director Mary Ann Belliveau guest-posted on CNN’s health blog this week. Her main point? That after 15…
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Blogger quits U.S. News, citing sponsored links
Critical questions about online sponsored content, and the relationship between editorial control and hyperlinking, continue to be raised. The firewall…
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$95 million to figure out proper doses for kids
On The Wall Street Journal’s Health Blog, Katherine Hobson profiles the Pediatric Trials Network, a seven-year, NIH-funded effort to determine…
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CA docs recommend pot, but never see the patient
Once again, the the Redding Record Searchlight’s Ryan Sabalow has used his distance from the clinic booms in Southern California…
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California law re-seals some child abuse autopsies
On the California Watch blog, Ryan Gabrielson reports that the state has partially reversed a SB 39, the 2008 ruling…
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Washington’s “adult homes” have less regulation, more neglect
After analyzing 4,703 death certificates of folks who died at adult homes during a five-year span, The Seattle Times‘ Michael…
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Why Detroit’s emergency services are lagging
The Detroit News‘ Charlie LeDuff tried to figure out his city’s abysmal ambulance response times, and had a tough time…
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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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Anecdotes suggest post-Gulf spill health issues
With the help of Spot.us, Glynn Wilson gathered anecdotes that point to a set of symptoms he’s calling the “BP…