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Lack of vaccination, awareness worsen UK flu season
The Guardian‘s Denis Campbell and Sarah Boseley report that a drop in vaccination rates and a lack of public awareness…
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EU reviewing limits to physician work weeks
The Telegraph‘s Andy Bloxham writes that the European Union’s 48-hour-a-week average working time limit is under review, at least as…
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Taking stock of big pharma in Canada
CBC and Radio-Canada have cooperated to produce a comprehensive look at the nation’s pharmaceutical industry, which centers on Montreal, Canada’s…
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Happy holidays from AHCJ
The AHCJ offices are closed down for the holidays and will re-open on Jan. 3. As a result, blog postings…
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ProPublica finds academic physicians violating schools’ conflict rules
While journalists have been finding innovative ways to use ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs database, the database’s founders, Tracy Weber and…
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Report: Kosovo crime ring executed prisoners, harvested their organs
According to a draft report from the Council of Europe, a criminal network in Kosovo executed prisoners and sold their…
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WSJ details conflicts that drive spine fusion surgery
The Wall Street Journal‘s John Carreyou and Tom McGinty have taken advantage of their paper’s Medicare data stockpile to look…
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Fla. group home’s sex policy raises questions
St. Petersburg Times reporter Justin George has painstakingly assembled the story of a group home for developmentally disabled adult men…
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After 8 years, Quebec’s adverse event reporting law remains unenforceable
The Montreal Gazette‘s Charlie Fidelman has assembled a round-up of what has, and hasn’t, happened in the eight years since…
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AHCJ urges reporters in disaster areas to avoid focusing on selves
Reporters covering cholera in Haiti and the latest tsunami in Indonesia bring the world’s attention to people in urgent need,…
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