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McKenna talks about MRSA in pigs, farmers
In addition to the strains of MRSA that arose in hospitals and the community, there is one that seems to…
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Prenatal thyroid testing fuels screening debate
The New York Times‘ Ingfei Chen reported on the debate over the screening of pregnant women for thyroid disorders that…
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Anger at radio host shapes autism performance
Writing for The Women’s Media Center, Emily Wilson tells how a mother’s outrage over conservative talk radio host Michael Savage’s…
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Op-ed: Obama’s quality metrics could be dangerous
On the Wall Street Journal‘s Op-Ed page, Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband cite the shortcomings of a quality metric-based system…
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Refusal to vaccinate puts others at risk
The Marin Independent Journal‘s Rob Rogers, reporting from a county where an above-average number of parents ask to exempt their…
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FDA cracks down on drug-sponsored links
Medical Marketing & Media‘s Matthew Arnold reports that the FDA’s marketing and advertising wing asked a number of major drug…
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Lack of health literacy can be fatal
Pauline Chen, M.D., wrote in The New York Times about “health literacy,” arguing that both patients and doctors share the…
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State’s paid promotions appear to be newscasts
Tulsa World reporter Kim Archer found that the state of Oklahoma paid a media conglomerate $3 million in exchange for…
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Fla. painkiller industry flourishes, supplies nation
The Miami Herald‘s Scott Hiaasen delved into South Florida’s massive painkiller industry, one which, enabled by loose laws and lax…
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N.J. psychiatric hospital botches drugs, doses
Jean Mikle of the Asbury Park Press chronicled medication errors at Ancora Psychiatric Hospital, New Jersey’s largest such institution. Mikle…