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npr
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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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Little recent progress on foodborne illnesses
The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report contains some early numbers on foodborne illness rates in 2009. The data, NPR…
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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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More vets come home as result of psychiatric issues
On Shots, NPR’s Health Blog, Nadja Popovich reports on a recent Johns Hopkins study that found, more troops were evacuated…
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NPR to air explanatory Fosamax piece tonight
NPR correspondent Alix Spiegel’s latest piece, an examination of how Merck manufactured a disease (and an epidemic) en route to…
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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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NPR answers H1N1 questions
With H1N1 and the mini-pandemic of rumors that seem to follow it on the rise, NPR brought out the big…
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Hensley cast as ‘Johnny Appleseed’ in profile
Medical Marketing & Media’s Matthew Arnold profiled AHCJ member Scott Hensley, of the NPR Health Blog, calling him “digital health…