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COI policy change has medical associations talking
A policy intended to reduce conflicts of interest in continuing medical education will take effect at the American Heart Association’s…
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Pharma starts disclosing sample numbers
The Health Policy law will require drug makers to disclose the amounts of free samples they distribute, a requirement which…
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Hospital sends ER wait times via text
Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill., has taken the art of making ER wait times available to prospective patients to the…
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List reveals drugs U.S. consumers buy from Canada
Photo by pulsman via Flickr. On the Los Angeles Times‘ Booster Shots blog, Jeannine Stein has located the Canadian International…
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AP takes on medical costs of overtreatment
The AP’s Lauran Neergaard has taken on medical overtreatment in America in the first two parts of a six-part series,…
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Military slow to treat mild traumatic brain injury
ProPublica‘s T. Christian Miller and NPR‘s Daniel Zwerdling have found unpublished military documents which indicate that tens of thousands of…
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Physician-owned hospitals: Restricting us is unconstitutional!
The National Law Journal’s Tresa Baldas has the details of a suit filed by physician-owned hospital advocacy and ownership groups…
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House nixes COBRA help, opens “jungle”
On Prepared Patient Forum, AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman examined the fallout of the Friday House vote to toss…
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GAO sting spotlights sketchy herbal meds
Undercover sting operation reports may not be the meatiest documents released by the Government Accountability Office, but they’re almost always…
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Practical concerns facing NPs in rural areas
Susan Presley, writing for the American Journal of Nursing, examines the role nurse practitioners are playing in addressing the well-documented…