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New FDA brass sets public health agenda
Margaret Hamburg, the new FDA sheriff, and her deputy, Joshua Sharfstein, have laid out a public health manifesto for the…
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Rise in uncompensated care forces hospital cuts
MinnPost.com‘s Dr. Kay Schwebke reported that uncompensated care — both charity care and bad debt taken on by hospitals to…
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Toxicologists: Media gets chemical risks wrong
Writing for STATS, a research organization affiliated with George Mason University, Robert Lichter reports on a study of “how experts…
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Oransky to take helm at Reuters Health
AHCJ board member Ivan Oransky, M.D., has been named executive editor of Reuters Health. He assumes RH’s top editorial job…
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Vaccination gaps raise whooping cough risks
The evidence keeps piling up to show that kids who don’t get vaccinated carry real risks of catching diseases once…
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CJR examines potential, weaknesses of health IT
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors, sought to shed light on the nebulous…
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S.C.: Pandemic plan handled H1N1, needs tweaking
Joey Holleman at The State reviewed South Carolina’s reaction to H1N1 and what it revealed about the state’s pandemic preparedness.…
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Tribune: Lupron to treat autism is ‘junk science’
The Chicago Tribune‘s Trine Tsouderos reports on the growing use of Lupron, a drug sometimes used to chemically castrate sex…
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Blog: H1N1 shows gov’t needs social media
On the blog Social Media Strategery, Michael Dumlao writes about how the rapid viral spread of disinformation about H1N1 showed the…
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