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Series reveals gaps in communication of hospital inspection results
Jodie Jackson Jr. of the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune took an in-depth look at patient safety at University Hospital, part…
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Uninsured overwhelm ERs, clinics in Calif. county
Uninsured out-of-work professionals and laid-off blue-collar workers are stressing the health system in Stanislaus County, Calif., as reported by Jocelyn…
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Review: Doctors experimented on healthy people
The Associated Press’ Mike Stobbe found more than 40 instances of doctors making patients sick for the sake of experimentation…
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The Affordable Care Act: What to cover at the one-year mark
The Affordable Care Act became law nearly one year ago, on March 23, 2010. The biggest provisions – the state-based exchanges…
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Resource is a fact book on older Americans
The latest version of “Profile of Older Americans: 2010,” published by the HHS Administration on Aging is available. AHCJ member…
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Fact-checking Pawlenty’s Health Policy claims
In some parts of the country, health care-related posturing for the 2012 election is already in full swing. Over at…
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Family writes about son’s schizophrenia
NPR’s All Things Considered featured the story of Henry Cockburn and his father, British journalist Patrick Cockburn. While the father…
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Allen wins Goldsmith Award, joins ProPublica
Marshall Allen, an award-winning AHCJ member, is joining ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative news organization based in New York. Allen has…
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Navigators work to keep patients from falling through cracks
Patient navigators – “like the air traffic controllers in health care” – captured the attention of Pamela Fayerman of the…
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Were journalists ‘fabulously naïve’ about human genome?
As Tinker Ready reported on the Nature Network’s Boston Blog, the luminaries gathered for Harvard’s panel on the 10-year anniversary…
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