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Health data
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Disciplined docs turn up on Pfizer payroll
New Scientist’s Peter Aldhous and Jim Giles created an interesting mash-up of two popular health stories, disciplined caregivers and conflicts…
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Site allows analysis, sharing of health data
During a chat at the Health Journalism 2010 registration desk on Wednesday night, AHCJ special projects director Jeff Porter learned…
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In 2008, fewer preterm babies, more cesareans
Births in the United States went down nearly 2 percent in 2008, according to new figures [PDF] from the CDC’s…
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Journal Sentinel creates overdose database
Tom Kertscher of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analyzed 1,200 fatal overdoses that occurred in the greater Milwaukee area over the…
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Google charts health data from CDC, World Bank
Google has removed another step between people and information with the release of its new Public Data Explorer. It’s a…
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Reporters use county rankings for analysis
On Feb. 17, rankings of the relative health of counties in each American state were released by the Robert Wood…
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New federal caregiver database full of holes
Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein are still working with databases of disciplined caregivers, this time exposing gaping holes in the…
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Report measures health factors at county level
A county-by-county collection of reports set to be released tomorrow could be a good source for local data on a…
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‘Gold mine’ of workplace toxicity data released
After a long FOIA battle that ended with a federal lawsuit, Adam Finkel, former OSHA director of health standards programs…
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AAMC’s annual workforce report packed with data
The American Association of Medical Colleges has released its annual workforce report for 2009, and it’s full of enough state-by-state…