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Campaign strives to improve access to care; critics say ADA misses mark
Advocates for the poor and uninsured have worked long and hard to bring attention to the shortage of dental care…
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Covering primary care in the 21st century
Felice J. Freyer Primary care is where the rubber meets the road when it comes to health-system changes. Whether you…
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Medicare data shows dangerous prescribing habits, lack of oversight
ProPublica’s Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein and Jennifer LaFleur, in an analysis of Medicare prescription records, found that “some doctors and…
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Dates, location of Health Journalism 2014 announced
Health Journalism 2014, the annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists, will take place in Denver next year,…
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Reclassification impacts access to health care for millions of rural older adults
Back in January, the FCC announced $400 million in funding for creating and expanding rural broadband networks to support telemedicine…
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Denver named as Health Journalism 2014 site
Health Journalism 2014, the annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists, will take place in Denver next year,…
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CMS unveils dataset on top hospital discharge payments
The public can now compare hospital-specific charges for the top 100 most frequently billed discharges at the 3000+ hospitals across…
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Join today’s webinar on newly released hospital cost data
The federal government released data today showing what hospitals across the country charge Medicare for the same treatment or procedure.…
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Caring for older adults: What physicians, patients should question and what reporters should look at
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today published the results of its examination of care to determine the top five things…
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Dentists warn of risk in cleaning pacifiers with saliva
Dental folks collectively caught their breath when they heard about the study, just published in the journal Pediatrics. The findings:…
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