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Pfizer to pay $75mil for unethical Nigeria drug trial
The Independent‘s Daniel Howden reports that, for about $75 million, Pfizer has settled cases related to a disastrous unlicensed medical…
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WaPo takes the pulse of a suburban street
When she set out to do a “man on the street” story about health care, The Washington Post‘s Brigid Schulte…
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AP finds contaminated water in schools
The Associated Press has analyzed a decade of Environmental Protection Agency data and found that tests at thousands of American…
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How extremists orchestrated health care hooliganism
Tim Dickinson, writing for Rolling Stone, amassed a neat little pile of documents that enable him to make a solid…
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Foundation lived by big pharma, now dies by big pharma
Kris Hundley of the St. Petersburg Times reports that the Ischemia Research and Education Foundation, which maintained a massive patient…
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CNN looks into link between Lejuene water, cancer
CNN’s Abbie Boudreau and Scott Bronstein investigated a possible link between male breast cancer and contaminated drinking water provided at…
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Why aren’t some on dialysis referred for transplants?
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters Andrew Conte and Luis Fabregas have released the results of an extensive investigation into kidney transplant and…
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IoM: We need clear guidelines for disaster triage
AHCJ president Charles Ornstein, with Sheri Fink, M.D., writes for ProPublica about the report of an Institute of Medicine committee…
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11 Calif. hospitals fined for preventable mistakes
Cheryl Clark writes for HealthLeaders Media that 11 California Hospitals were fined $25,000 each by the state for mistakes that…
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Criminals at work in Fla. nursing homes
Sally Kestin, Peter Franceschina and John Maines of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel found that thousands of convicted criminals were working…