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Myths obscure lack of health care for some Asians
A focus on “ethnic disparities” can obscure the fact that racial designations are so broad that the disparities within them…
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Indiana numbers show preventable errors down
The Indianapolis Star‘s Daniel Lee reports that, according to the state’s newly released 2009 numbers, preventable medical errors are down…
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Is California’s prison health system really fixed?
After years of failing to prevent preventable inmate deaths, the California Department of Corrections health system was placed under a…
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Conflicts of interest + off-label use = Blockbuster
Medtronic is back at the FDA, asking for approval of another spine fusion product. Not coincidentally, the Journal Sentinel‘s John…
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‘Main Street’ informed, skeptical on Health Policy
In her blog on CJR.org, AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman updates what is becoming an annual franchise: Her summer…
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Hospitalist: What health journalists should know
R. W. Donnell, an Arkansas hospitalist with a long-running blog and a few burrs in his saddle, has outlined what…
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Society ‘snookered’ by research that isn’t new
Peggy Peck of MedPage Today found that research presented as new at the European Society of Cardiology’s annual meeting this…
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Gays excluded from clinical trials
Thanks to an awards announcement from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, we just noticed Jen Colletta’s story in…
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Dissecting Gawande’s narrative structure
In a recent post, Not Exactly Rocket Science’s Ed Yong tried to break down Atul Gawande’s work and figure out…
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Identical tubing demonstrates FDA’s inaction
In The New York Times, Gardiner Harris outlines the problem of medical tubing that looks very similar – leading to…
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