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Two doors, two classes of service at clinic
Two doors represent two different tiers of service in one New York City clinic, according to MSNBC.com reporter Bill Dedman.…
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Lopez finds glamour in LA’s marijuana community
Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez has released his latest dispatch from medical marijuana’s front lines. The Medical License page…
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Tulsa World reports on disciplining doctors
More than 300 Oklahoma doctors have been disciplined by the Oklahoma Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision, according to an…
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The latest trend in medicine? Outdoor exercise
Writing for The Washington Post, physician and University of California, San Francisco, medical professor Daphne Miller makes a strong case…
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One town’s end-of-life talks lead to living wills
NPR’s Joseph Shapiro has unearthed an outlier in the nation’s health care cost numbers, one which demonstrates the reality of…
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Med school prof: Dartmouth Atlas is ‘malarkey’
In a story done in collaboration with The Philadelphia Inquirer, Kaiser Health News’ Jordan Rau’s report on a leading physician’s…
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Ind. TV station uncovers underground ‘dentist’
Bob Segall of WHTR-Indianapolis chronicles the results of an investigation in which the station uncovered a “dentist” who has been…
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When quality matters to boards, hospitals do better
In Health Affairs, Ashish K. Jha and Arnold M. Epstein have released a study in which they found a link…
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Advocacy group: OSHA falls down on the job
Kirsten Stade, advocacy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, writes on The Hill‘s Congress Blog that the U.S. Occupational…
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Elderly prison population booming
CNN’s Stephanie Chen considers the issues that surround elderly prisoners, a fast-growing group that has generally flown under the radar.…