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Community relies on foreign-educated doctors
Armed with reams of data, The Bakersfield Californian‘s Kellie Schmitt charged headlong into the potential minefield of issues surrounding foreign…
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Tracking antipsychotic use in nursing homes
Kay Lazar Research published in 2010 found that patients newly admitted to nursing homes with some of the highest rates…
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Latest innovations in Medicare
Don’t look only to Washington policymakers for strategies to control medical costs and improve care for our aging population. New…
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Investigation reveals N.Y. lax on home care oversight
In the Albany (N.Y.) Times Union, Matt Drange’s investigation is titled “Home health care in crisis.” Having read the piece,…
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AHCJ protests FDA surveillance of communication between reporters, scientists
Following a New York Times report over the weekend that revealed the federal government secretly tracked communication sent by FDA…
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AHCJ protests FDA surveillance of communication between reporters, scientists
Following a New York Times report that revealed the federal government secretly tracked communication sent by FDA scientists to “members…
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Dignity, quality of life, accessibility in assisted living worth a look
Thanks to the The Miami Herald and a few other publications, dangerous conditions in assisted-living facilities have come under a…
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Reporter explores difficult end-of-life questions through father’s death
Lisa Krieger It took months for Lisa Krieger to decide to write about her father’s death and minutes for readers…
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Health care blessing or blueprint for a scandal?
Frederik Joelving The risks and benefits – both physical and fiscal – of cancer screening have become a burning topic,…
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Ind. parents ‘abandon’ children so they can get mental health care
Reporting for The Times of Northwest Indiana, Marisa Kwiatkowski found that Indiana’s child mental health services are so lacking that,…
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