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N.M. bill would establish licensing procedure for dental therapists
Dental therapists are already providing care to patients in underserved communities in Minnesota and in remote Alaskan tribal areas. Maine…
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Tips for covering efforts to establish licensing for dental therapists
Rosalie Rayburn A bill in New Mexico would establish a licensing and practicing framework for midlevel oral health providers in…
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Looking ahead to reporting on aging in the new year
There are plenty of aging-related stories on the horizon for 2015. Here are just some issues and ideas to get…
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Posts about Ebola, oral health, ethics and data among year’s top reads
As we close out 2014, take a look back at the most popular Covering Health posts of the year: Comparing…
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DC journalists dig into secrets behind AMA’s physician payment committee
A secretive committee of the American Medical Association exaggerates how much physician time and effort is involved in performing many…
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Taking a different look at readmission metrics, penalties
One of the high-profile programs within the Affordable Care Act is the drive to reduce preventable hospital readmissions among the…
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Report reveals the challenges behind covering patient safety
Patient safety is a critically important topic for health care journalists. Yet collecting the data needed to report on it…
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How a secretive committee recommends how much physicians should be paid
Journalists Dan Keating and Peter Whoriskey of The Washington Post explain how a secretive committee of doctors makes decisions about…
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Figuring out the politics of patient harm
Michael L. Millenson Patient safety is a critically important topic for health care journalists. Yet collecting the data needed to…
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Lessons learned in covering passage of a soda tax
In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 4 elections, Tom Lochner covered the debate over soda tax questions on…
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