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Two vaccines keeping kids out of ERs
Maryn McKenna writes in Annals of Emergency Medicine that the impressive recent success of rotavirus and pneumococcus vaccines has caused…
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Marketing treats risk factors as diseases
Maryann Napoli writes in the American Journal of Nursing that “in the name of prevention, millions of Americans have accepted…
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Reports: Clinical trial oversight lacking
ProPublica’s Alexandra Andrews reviewed two recent reports on conflicts of interest in the institutional review boards tasked with overseeing clinical…
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Column: Lopez helps erase stigma of mental illness
Those of you who were at last fall’s Urban Health Journalism Workshop – and those of you who weren’t –…
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Where does Baucus stand on public insurance?
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors, tries to pin down exactly where Montana…
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Loophole in industry proposal for universal coverage
Los Angeles Times columnist David Lazarus points out that while, in a letter to influential senators, insurance industry executives promise,…
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Doctors present new technologies to investors
AHCJ member Tinker Ready, on Boston Health News, writes that research institutions and companies presented their inventions to investors at…
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Drug companies aim to sway docs through classes
Doctors around the country are required to obtain continuing education credits throughout the course of their career. John Fauber and…
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Reporter joins DNA risk-analysis study
VoiceofSanDiego.org‘s Randy Dotinga took part in the growing trend of using genetic analysis to determine risk levels for certain diseases.…
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Texas system fails the chronically homeless
In the first of a series of articles, Kim Horner of The Dallas Morning News looks at the struggle of…