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Doctors quietly get millions from device makers
The Archives of Internal Medicine recently published a study on conflict of interest disclosures by surgeons receiving more than $1…
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New CME provider eschews industry money
Medical Marketing & Media‘s Marc Iskowitz profiles a new continuing medical education provider, Lighthouse Learning. Started by a Harvard neurologist…
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Health reporting and one researcher’s pet peeves
Dorothy Bishop, neuropsychology professor and occasional science/academics blogger (bio), ruminates on what she calls the “uneasy alliance” between science and…
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Mason wins NASW award for drug resistance series
AHCJ member and Associated Press reporter Margie Mason won the science reporting category of the National Association of Science Writers’…
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Welcome to the newest AHCJ members
These journalists have joined AHCJ recently: Monica Jensen, multimedia editor, SF Public Press; San Francisco (@monicajensen) Roger Sergel, medical coverage…
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Disciplined doc gets top rank in Google
In SF Weekly, Ashley Harrell investigated the disconnect between a local plastic surgeon’s record of “gross negligence” which left one…
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Gorman takes job with Scientific American
AHCJ member Christine Gorman (@cgorman) has been announced as a new editor at Scientific American, where she’ll work primarily on…
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Reporters urged to insist on response from federal agencies
When the FDA would offer only “no comment” on a notorious incident last summer, Felice J. Freyer, a medical writer…
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Hirsh files from ‘health journalist heaven’
For the past few days, Consumer Reports‘ Jamie Hirsh has been filing dispatches from what she calls “health journalist heaven,”…
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Pharmaceutical spending varies geographically
The New England Journal of Medicine has examined geographical variation in Medicare drug spending, an area the authors said previous…
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