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NLM workshop in Ohio tests waters for possible chapter
This post was contributed by AHCJ member Eileen Beal. On Oct. 9, health care journalists, a couple of journalism professors,…
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Using Census data for health reporting
The U.S. Census Bureau puts together a wealth of health-related information from its American Community Survey and decennial Census. You…
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ProPublica investigates pharma payments to doctors
ProPublica’s massive investigation into the hefty fees pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors with dubious track records stamps an exclamation point…
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More patients aren’t filling brand-name prescriptions
It hasn’t had quite as much impact as some earlier health-related recession trend stories, but the rise in prescription abandonment…
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Who monitors pharmacies’ systems to curb pseudoephedrine sales?
CVS Pharmacy has been in the news recently after it agreed to pay $75 million in penalties and forfeit $2.6…
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Schwitzer on the future of health journalism
When HealthNewsReview.org publisher Gary Schwitzer writes on the future of health journalism, his words carry the weight of a database…
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Rural health on the frontier
A defining feature of reporter David Wahlberg’s ongoing look at rural health care for the Wisconsin State Journal has been…
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Canadians fight for disclosure of medical treatment
It took eight years, a whistleblower and intervention from a state commissioner to uncover a fatal medical error in a…
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Understanding the administrative side of implementation
Coverage of health care reform implementation has generally focused on the issues and effects of the roll-out, rather than the…
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Trade group says conflicts negate GPOs’ leverage
A recent GAO report looked at group purchasing organizations and established that they were pervasive, and that they’d adopted some…
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