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Studies
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Public Citizen: Pharma tops government defrauders
The nonprofit consumer group Public Citizen has conducted an analysis that indicates that the pharmaceutical industry has passed the defense…
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New stats: 1 in 6 get foodborne illnesses each year
More precise estimates than previously available find that one in six Americans suffer foodborne illnesses annually and that 3,000 die…
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AHCJ-CDC Fellows learn about diabetes project
Editor’s note: This post, from the AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows‘ visit to the CDC, originally reported the CDC is close…
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Initiatives not improving patient safety; poor implementation to blame
A large-scale study that followed mistakes in health care delivery at 10 North Carolina hospitals from 2002 to 2007 found…
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New database links journalists, trauma research
There’s a reason the folks from the National Library of Medicine are fixtures at AHCJ events: Medical research is an…
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Where you are determines your end-of-life care
As you’ve likely noticed, the Dartmouth Atlas team has now focused its lens on end-of-life care and found, not surprisingly,…
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Report projects 134,000 hospital patients a month experience adverse events
More than 13 percent of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were harmed during a hospital stay, according to a study released by…
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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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Scary secrets about ghostwriting in journals
Just in time for Halloween, an anonymous medical ghostwriter spoke to Phil Davis over at the Scholarly Kitchen about the…
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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…