Tag
conflict of interest
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Baucus plan takes on ‘secret pricing’
The Associated Press’ Carla K. Johnson reports that a provision of Sen. Max Baucus’ Health Policy plan has brought attention…
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U.S. turned a ‘blind eye’ to organ trafficking
ProPublica’s Emily Witt has attempted to figure out how the live-donor organ trafficking scheme exposed in the recent massive New…
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University’s ties to testosterone therapy questioned
When it comes to sketchy medicine, female hormone therapies have company. According to reporter John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal…
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Insurance industry positioned to profit from reform
In BusinessWeek, Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein write that major insurance companies have already succeeded in defining the debate over…
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Unsealed papers prove Wyeth was behind articles
Court documents show that Wyeth, maker of Premarin and Prempro, was involved in the writing of 26 scientific papers that…
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Online chat focuses on lobbying, health care reform
The folks at opensecrets.org, from the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics, will take their commitment to following the money through…
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SF Bay Area station runs sponsored health ‘news’
Michael Mechanic, a senior editor at Mother Jones, blogs about airtime for sale at KRON-San Francisco, a television station that…
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NPR series follows the money on Health Policy
A new NPR series, Dollar Politics, looks to, both figuratively and literally, turn the camera away from the politicians up…
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Health Policy czar was director at troubled firms
Fred Schulte, with the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, reviewed government documents to find that Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of…
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Report: $25,000 buys access to Post’s health reporters
Mike Allen of Politico.com reports that The Washington Post is offering off-the-record access to its reporters, for a price. A…