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national public radio
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Medical groups voluntarily tighten ethics rules
Writing for NPR’s health blog, Maggie Mertens reports that while recently passed reform legislation includes the “Physician Payments Sunshine Act”…
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Hensley explores HIT-related privacy breaches
NPR health blogger Scott Hensley writes that the HHS’ running list of “breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500…
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Fluportal.org: Postmortem of a temporary resource
Fluportal.org, a Corporation for Public Broadcasting-funded site built to help public media cover H1N1 and related issues, has completed its…
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Comments invited on latest draft of DSM
A new version of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has come out every decade…
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Transmitter tracks health-care workers’ washing
Despite constant reminders and a high-level of industrywide awareness, studies indicate that less than half of American health care workers…
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Fluportal.org stays on top of H1N1
While H1N1 seems to have peaked in many states – at least for now – Fluportal.org‘s resources to cover the…
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How hysterectomies spurred Dartmouth Atlas’ birth
In the first of a three-part series on health care costs in America, NPR’s Alix Spiegel tells the story of…
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KQED takes stock of food safety measures
California public radio station KQED explored food inspection and safety at all levels of the process, from producer to consumer,…
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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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Wrestling with the FDA recall e-mail avalanche
NPR’s April Fulton recently blogged about a phenomenon familiar to anyone with a subscription to the FDA’s recall e-mail list,…