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Public records
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BMJ wants raw data for all drug trials to be shared
Under the headline “We want raw data, now,” BMJ editor Fiona Godlee recounts the story of how BMJ had to…
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FDA’s database of food production sites is lacking
A new HHS inspector general’s report sheds light on problems in the FDA’s Food Facility Registy (PDF), finding that almost…
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Obama initiatives include VA hospital report cards
Saying that “commitment to open government goes beyond the making of government-wide policy for the future,” the White House announced…
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How the pharma research ‘sausage’ is made
Reporting on Health’s William Heisel has posted the latest installment in his series highlighting the spiciest entries in the Drug…
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Senate, reporters return to the Health Policy bill
As the Senate gets back to work on health care reform, some reporters have taken a a good look at…
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Archive offers drug industry documents online
In correspondence earlier this month, Kim Klausner, of the University of California, San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management,…
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Tech company aggregates, digitizes H1N1 info
Ebrary, a Silicon Valley outfit that specializes in digitizing and aggregating documents, then making them searchable, has put together a…
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600-plus Ill. patients drugged without consent
After a review of 40,000+ inspection reports for Illinois nursing homes, the Chicago Tribune‘s Sam Roe reports that the paper…
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AHRQ interviews Ornstein, talks medical errors
Robert Wachter, M.D., (bio), editor of AHRQ WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality), interviewed AHCJ President Charles Ornstein, of ProPublica, for a…
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CBS questions CDC’s H1N1 prevalence estimates
CBS’s Sharyl Attkisson reviewed state and federal data (collected through FOIA and other open records requests) and found that H1N1…