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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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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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Why Texas is failing to privatize mental health care
In 2003, Texas passed a law that sought to turn mental health care in the state into a competitive marketplace.…
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Delivery room fight shows structural problems in Italian health care
Over at BMJ’s Open blog, Fabio Turone explains the systemic issues behind the particularly sensational headline that, as he wrote,…
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How ghostwriters sold hormone replacement
Writing in PLoS Medicine, Adriane J. Fugh-Berman, M.D., demonstrates the cynical art of “publication planning” and the use of academic…
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Assessing acute care in America
The New York Times‘ Kevin Sack reports on a Health Affairs study that explores “acute medical care,” particularly initial visits…
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Public handicapped by lack of information on medical errors
Who protects the patients? That’s what reporters at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wanted to know – and it’s the title…
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