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NYT’s Heffernan contrasts WebMD, MayoClinic.com
New York Times Magazine columnist Virginia Heffernan has posted a take on the quality of online health information, framed as…
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Medical-legal partnerships: Tackling the social causes of health disparities
Since the first formal medical-legal partnership was set up in 1993 by Barry Zuckerman, M.D. and lawyer Ellen M. Lawton,…
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Las Vegas Sun’s Allen a finalist for Goldsmith Prize
AHCJ member Marshall Allen, with Alex Richards, is a finalist for the 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their…
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Carlat reviews Dollars for Docs, and the bleak picture it paints
Writing on KevinMD.com, psychiatrist and blogger Daniel Carlat reviews ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs database from the perspective of a medical…
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ER scribes handle EMRs, free up doctors
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Michele Munz has found that some emergency rooms are easing the transition to electronic medical records…
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Food safety law boosts tracking technology sector
In The Washington Post, reporter Lyndsey Layton digs into the industry spawned by a requirement in last year’s food safety…
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The health highlights of two years of Guardian data
In two years, the Guardian’s data blog has published more than 600 data sets. I know this because, thanks to…
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Australian journal says no to pharma ads
Emergency Medicine Australasia, an Australia-based medical journal, has declared that it will no longer accept paid advertisements from pharmaceutical companies.…
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Rennie urges changes in science journalism
In the Guardian, former Scientific American editor in chief John Rennie adds his two cents to the meta discussion of…
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DocumentCloud opens a window into inspection reports for readers
While doing a comprehensive investigation of the quality of care in hospitals for the Las Vegas Sun, Marshall Allen wanted…
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