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A deeper look at the employer mandate and the work week
The employer mandate was pushed back for 2014 and is being phased in more gradually in 2015-16. What portion of…
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Are dental assistants in your state expanding their scope of practice?
Image by University of the Fraser Valley via flickr. There are more than 300,000 dental assistants at work across America…
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Are you covering a fakethrough?
Jonathan Latham, Ph.D. Remember the burger grown from stem cells? It might be a great idea, except a single patty…
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Excellent models exist for home-based mental health services
Providing mentally ill older adults with home based services can be logistically daunting and expensive. However, a study in the…
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Questions remain despite latest ACA enrollment numbers, projections
The latest ACA enrollment report (and the CBO projection that 6 million people would sign up for exchange coverage by…
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Children sedated, anesthetized for dental procedures: What reporters should know
Image by ktpupp via Flickr. A 3-year old Hawaiian girl died in January, a month after she lapsed into a coma while…
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Reporter focuses on chronic pain for series on opioid use
When The Cincinnati Enquirer set out to look at the societal costs of the deadly opioid crisis, reporter Lisa Bernard-Kuhn…
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S.C. adults may gain dental benefits as part of Medicaid plan
Adult dental benefits would be added to South Carolina’s Medicaid program under a plan being considered by the state legislature.…
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Reporter focuses on chronic pain for series on opioid use
Lisa Bernard-Kuhn When The Cincinnati Enquirer set out to look at the societal costs of the deadly opioid crisis, reporter…
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UK study: Sleep quality is a strong predictor of chronic pain
Non-restorative sleep is the strongest, independent predictor of widespread pain onset among adults over the age of 50, according to…
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