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Pharmaceuticals
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Drug pricing, rebates to shift with Health Policy
Drug rebates aren’t the headline grabbing element of Health Policy; for some of us they are probably in the eye-glazing…
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Investigative reports lead to Senate investigation into painkiller promotion
Following up on reporting efforts from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today and ProPublica, a Senate committee has launched investigation into…
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AP puts numbers on the prescription drug epidemic
The Associated Press’ Chris Hawley has worked through the latest numbers on the prescription painkiller boom, helping to illustrate the…
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Network drives increase in painkiller prescriptions
In the latest installment of his ongoing investigation for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today, John Fauber looks for…
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AHCJ calls for accessible reporting of physician payments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should create an easily usable and searchable database when it publishes information from…
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Controversy over breast implants spreads across Europe
British clinics delivering cosmetic surgery were thrown into crisis by the decision last month of the French government to fund the removal…
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Investigation delves into Wash.’s prescription drug problem
Everything time we think prescription drug abuse stories have peaked, something comes along to push the story further. This time,…
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Web outlet pumps out dozens of stories on prescription drug abuse
In partnership with USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and a number of other organizations, Santa Barbara online news…
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NYT series digs into overprescription and developmentally disabled adults
In the series Abused and Used, New York Times reporter Danny Hakim and a host of his colleagues have been…
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Tsouderos looks at federal funding of alternative medicine
In her latest series, Chicago Tribune reporter Trine Tsouderos, whose award-winning reporting has brought her hard-nosed approach to investigating less-proven…