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Public health
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Dialysis program: Experiment in socialized medicine comes with high costs, risks
ProPublica’s Robin Fields has put together an artful examination of the nation’s Medicare-funded dialysis system. Part history and part investigation,…
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Video, presentations from comparative effectiveness conference available online
Earlier this month, ECRI’s 17th annual conference tackled the thorniest detail of comparative effectiveness research, namely that it’s rarely a…
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In herbal remedies, labels don’t match contents
With the help of researchers who put together herbal DNA barcodes, PBS NewsHour’s Paul Solman found out just how often…
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GAO evaluates FDA’s overseas inspectors
A couple of new GAO reports are seeking to shed some light on the FDA’s overseas regulatory efforts. The first…
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Researchers surprised by concussion study
Writing for Sports Illustrated, David Epstein tells the story of a small-scale Indiana football concussion study in which in which…
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Conflicts abound for private food inspectors
The Washington Post‘s Lena H. Sun has gathered, in one story, a laundry list of all the shortcomings, loopholes and…
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Rural health on the frontier
A defining feature of reporter David Wahlberg’s ongoing look at rural health care for the Wisconsin State Journal has been…
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Is America’s high health spending linked to short lifespans?
The United States lags behind other developed nations in life expectancy, yet spends far more on health care than any…
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Journalists to provide input in talks on information released in public health emergencies
Local, state and federal health officials from around the country will gather Friday with journalists to start developing guidelines on…
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Florida pill mills spread, resist prosecution
With South Florida beginning to crack down, the pain pill mills that fuel the Appalachian drug trade are moving northward.…