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Politico names movers and shakers in Health Policy
Politico‘s Carrie Budoff Brown profiled four lesser-known movers and shakers in the coming brawl over health care reform (as well…
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Drug companies paid for mock journals
According to TheScientist.com’s Bob Grant, Merck paid health publisher Elsevier to publish six journals earlier this decade, a relationship that…
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Map shows hotspots of mental distress
Ker Than reports in National Geographic News on an intriguing map showing the percentage of folks in each American county…
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LA Times looks at H1N1’s roots, early days
Los Angeles Times reporter Tracy Wilkinson dug deeper into the story of the discovery of H1N1 in the Oaxaca hospital…
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Columnist: Some coverage of H1N1 over the top
Los Angeles Times columnist James Rainey reviews recent coverage of the spread of H1N1, finding that while many stories tried…
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Hospitals add real patients to ad campaigns
Andrew Adam Newman reports in The New York Times on the state of hospital advertising, citing some specific cases to…
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Blog seeks input on Health Policy from Californians
KQED, San Francisco’s public radio and television organization, is soliciting ideas from health care professionals, reform advocates and the public…
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Hospital apologizes after banning newspaper
The Hackensack University Medical Center has apologized to The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record for banning its sale on hospital grounds…
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H1N1 roundup: Headlines outpace cases
Swine flu stories are practically their own pandemic. Confirmed cases of illness caused by the H1N1 virus in the U.S.…
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New Republic: Confirm proposed FDA chief now
The New Republic‘s Jonathan Cohn extols the virtues of public health veteran and pandemic pro Margaret Hamburg, and asks why…