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Myths obscure lack of health care for some Asians
A focus on “ethnic disparities” can obscure the fact that racial designations are so broad that the disparities within them…
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Indiana numbers show preventable errors down
The Indianapolis Star‘s Daniel Lee reports that, according to the state’s newly released 2009 numbers, preventable medical errors are down…
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Is California’s prison health system really fixed?
After years of failing to prevent preventable inmate deaths, the California Department of Corrections health system was placed under a…
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Conflicts of interest + off-label use = Blockbuster
Medtronic is back at the FDA, asking for approval of another spine fusion product. Not coincidentally, the Journal Sentinel‘s John…
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Society ‘snookered’ by research that isn’t new
Peggy Peck of MedPage Today found that research presented as new at the European Society of Cardiology’s annual meeting this…
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Identical tubing demonstrates FDA’s inaction
In The New York Times, Gardiner Harris outlines the problem of medical tubing that looks very similar – leading to…
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Mass. won’t post hospitals’ death rates
The Boston Globe‘s Liz Kowalczyk reports that, two years after it was first proposed by a consumer group, the Massachusetts…
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As school starts, so do youth sports injuries
The University of Michigan’s new Michigan NeuroSport Concussion Program seems to be cropping up everywhere, and as far as I…
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Endowment funds local health reporter
Let’s get the headline out of the way first: The Merced Sun-Star is hiring a health care reporter! Now, the…
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Article looks at evidence behind back surgery
In the Star Tribune, Janet Moore seeks to counter aggressive spinal surgery with equally aggressive journalism. It’s a comprehensive take…