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Daschle pushes health IT to Obama, clients profit
South Dakota Democrat and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is not registered as a lobbyist, and has not held…
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Calif. SSI payouts insufficient, lacking in oversight
Capital Public Radio’s Kelley Weiss explored how cuts to California’s Supplemental Security Income were impacting older disabled Californians and, in…
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Medicaid kids more likely to get antipsychotics
New York Times reporter Duff Wilson reports on federally funded research that has revealed that children covered by Medicaid are…
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Panel recommends FDA restrict MRI scan drugs
An advisory panel has “recommended Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration effectively ban, for patients with severe kidney disease,…
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Series examines life expectancy disparities
In their Contra Costa Times series “Shortened Lives,” Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman start by profiling three different people from…
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‘Pill Mill’ series turns focus on rogue doctors
The Palm Beach Post‘s Michael LaForgia has put together a spicy profile of rogue Florida pain management doctors. While Florida…
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Parikh: Celebs’ medical advice should be tempered
Writing for Slate, Rahul Parikh chronicles the damage done by medical advice-dispensing celebrities then, acknowledging their influence and staying power,…
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BMJ wants raw data for all drug trials to be shared
Under the headline “We want raw data, now,” BMJ editor Fiona Godlee recounts the story of how BMJ had to…
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Corporate clinics scored scarce H1N1 shots
USA Today‘s Alison Young reviewed state H1N1 vaccine distribution information from Florida, Texas and Georgia, finding that “When the swine…
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Star-Tribune looks into fatal falls in nursing homes
Minneapolis Star-Tribune reporters Glenn Howatt and Pam Louwagie analyzed death certificates and found that about 1,000 Minnesota deaths between 2002…