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Canadian government obstructs journalists’ access
Writing in Nature News, Kathryn O’Hara celebrates Right to Know Week by declaring that “the information policies of Conservative Prime…
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Florida pill mills spread, resist prosecution
With South Florida beginning to crack down, the pain pill mills that fuel the Appalachian drug trade are moving northward.…
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GAO examines competition in hospital purchasing
Group purchasing organizations are intermediaries which theoretically group hospitals together to give them more leverage in purchasing negotiations. In 2009,…
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Ky. program a model for improving rural access
As part of his series on rural health, the Wisconsin State Journal‘s David Wahlberg traveled down to Appalachian Kentucky to…
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CMS failed to report disciplined providers
ProPublica’s Marian Wang reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “essentially undermined” HHS efforts to create a national…
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Doctors quietly get millions from device makers
The Archives of Internal Medicine recently published a study on conflict of interest disclosures by surgeons receiving more than $1…
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New CME provider eschews industry money
Medical Marketing & Media‘s Marc Iskowitz profiles a new continuing medical education provider, Lighthouse Learning. Started by a Harvard neurologist…
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Disciplined doc gets top rank in Google
In SF Weekly, Ashley Harrell investigated the disconnect between a local plastic surgeon’s record of “gross negligence” which left one…
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Pharmaceutical spending varies geographically
The New England Journal of Medicine has examined geographical variation in Medicare drug spending, an area the authors said previous…
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In addition to lives, checklists save money
Last year, Atul Gawande and company made a splash by showing what a profound clinical impact checklists made on patient…