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Obama announces Office of Health Policy
President Barack Obama has, by executive order, established an Office of Health Policy in the White House, with a parallel…
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Stand against hospital deal lands ethics award
Glen Mabie, the former news director at WEAU-Eau Claire, Wis., has won a 2009 Payne Award for Excellence in Journalism.…
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Two vaccines keeping kids out of ERs
Maryn McKenna writes in Annals of Emergency Medicine that the impressive recent success of rotavirus and pneumococcus vaccines has caused…
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Marketing treats risk factors as diseases
Maryann Napoli writes in the American Journal of Nursing that “in the name of prevention, millions of Americans have accepted…
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Reports: Clinical trial oversight lacking
ProPublica’s Alexandra Andrews reviewed two recent reports on conflicts of interest in the institutional review boards tasked with overseeing clinical…
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Column: Lopez helps erase stigma of mental illness
Those of you who were at last fall’s Urban Health Journalism Workshop – and those of you who weren’t –…
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CSPI shuts down Integrity in Science Watch
The ongoing economic crunch has claimed yet another casualty – the Integrity in Science Watch program that was run by…
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Today’s Health Policy forum in LA to be webcast
The fifth White House Regional Forum on Health Policy, this time in Los Angeles, is scheduled to begin at 10:30…
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Hospitals, infrastructure focus of World Health Day
The World Health Organization has designated tomorrow (April 7) as World Health Day and this year the WHO is emphasizing…
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Where does Baucus stand on public insurance?
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors, tries to pin down exactly where Montana…
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