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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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Reporters urged to insist on response from government agencies
FDA headquarters (Photo by thisisbossi via Flickr) When the FDA would offer only "no comment" on a notorious incident last…
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In addition to lives, checklists save money
Last year, Atul Gawande and company made a splash by showing what a profound clinical impact checklists made on patient…
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Aussie researchers find value in health reporters
In Croakey, Melissa Sweet explains a new study about coverage of avian flu by Australian media and how it demonstrates…
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Ethics professor takes on clinical trials, marketing
Writing for Mother Jones, University of Minnesota medical ethics professor Carl Elliott digs into the Dan Markingson story first covered…
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Yale doc knows the right data is out there
Writing for Forbes Magazine, Matthew Herper profiles Harlan Krumholz, the pioneering quality of care researcher and Yale cardiologist. During his…
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The real challenge for Italian health care
Changes are on tap for the Italian health care system. Standard health care costs will be defined, which means determining…
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Data: Calif. for-profits order more C-sections
Writing for California Watch, Nathanael Johnson leads with the numbers on his story about for-profit hospitals and C-sections. Appropriately for…
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