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Homeless man teaches MD about inequalities
The Chicago Tribune‘s Judith Graham tells the story of a doctor who befriended a homeless man who sold StreetWise magazine…
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FDA considers certification to prescribe opioids
Photo by Vaprotan via Flickr Writing on the Off the Charts blog, Jacob Molyneux of the American Journal of Nursing…
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Swine flu blues: Vaccinations could be delayed
Summertime and forgetting about swine flu is easy. But the World Health Organization yanked us back to reality. The H1N1…
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Poor, rural hospitals have higher death rates
USA Today‘s Steve Sternberg and Jack Gillum expanded upon a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report showing higher death…
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Schwarzenegger replaces nursing board members following ProPublica, LA Times investigation
Late Monday, Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger replaced nearly everyone on the state’s Board of Registered Nursing, “citing the unacceptable length…
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Reporter digs up Seattle hospital salaries
John Ryan of KUOW News in Seattle used publicly available data and records requests to localize the national debate on…
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Anecdotes unleashed as reform battle heats up
Carla K. Johnson of the Associated Press takes a look at the avalanche of anecdotes used as ammunition by both…
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‘Too old for surgery’ a more complicated decision
Marie McCullough of The Philadelphia Inquirer takes a look at lifesaving surgeries performed on older patients, finding that “Age is…
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Black lung’s back, Obama slow to react?
Ken Ward Jr., writing on the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette‘s Coal Tattoo blog, notes that black lung disease is once again…
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Ky. county to warn coaches about air pollution
In a story that shows how health stories can span several beats, James Bruggers, writing for the Louisville Courier-Journal‘s kentuckianagreen.com,…