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Honolulu Advertiser examines nursing homes
The Honolulu Advertiser put together a multimedia package about nursing home deficiencies that includes text, video, a questionnaire to help…
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Medical groups voluntarily tighten ethics rules
Writing for NPR’s health blog, Maggie Mertens reports that while recently passed reform legislation includes the “Physician Payments Sunshine Act”…
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WSJ: Small hospitals get little benefit from device
In The Wall Street Journal, John Carreyrou uses the problems of a small New Hampshire hospital to illustrate how difficult…
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Boulton explains comparative effectiveness
Next time somebody asks why the stimulus plan included $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research (and where all that money’s…
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24,000 Memphis patients rated their doctors
The Healthy Memphis Common Table is an effort to help patients and providers take charge of improving the city’s health.…
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State NAMI chapters got pharma money too
Wall Street Journal health blogger Katherine Hobson writes that, according to an investigation by Sen. Chuck Grassley, state chapters of…
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Hensley explores HIT-related privacy breaches
NPR health blogger Scott Hensley writes that the HHS’ running list of “breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500…
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Sapien chronicles formaldehyde battle
At ProPublica, Joaquin Sapien tells the story of how Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter successfully obstructed the FDA’s attempts to…
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Residents not warned of nursing home foreclosures
Writing for The New York Times, Laurie Udesky reports that despite significant rates of foreclosures, California nursing homes are not…
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Deconstructing a NYT op-ed in three acts
On April 17, New York Times‘ op-ed columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a column about globalization, international competition and entrepreneurship. Here,…