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The NIH Women’s Health Research Agenda: The Coming Decade (Janine Austin Clayton presentation)
An NIH representative presents the general direction of that institution's women's health research, as well as specific issues and research…
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Tanning beds: What do the numbers really mean?
This is a guest post from Ivan Oransky, M.D., editor of Reuters Health and AHCJ’s treasurer, written at my invitation.…
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Agenda indicates federal health priorities
This week, OMB Watch brought our attention to the recently released “Current Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions,” which…
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Medical groups voluntarily tighten ethics rules
Writing for NPR’s health blog, Maggie Mertens reports that while recently passed reform legislation includes the “Physician Payments Sunshine Act”…
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WSJ: Small hospitals get little benefit from device
In The Wall Street Journal, John Carreyrou uses the problems of a small New Hampshire hospital to illustrate how difficult…
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Network promises ESPN-style surgery coverage
MDiTV, a new online network with several AHCJ members on its roster, has been in the works for a while…
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Can reporters raise health literacy in the community?
In a panel about health literacy at Health Journalism 2010, panelists looked at how journalists might communicate about health and…
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Hands-on experiences highlight AHCJ field trip
Her eyes blink, her pupils dilate and, yes, doctors, she has a pulse. She also can have a seizure and…
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Boulton explains comparative effectiveness
Next time somebody asks why the stimulus plan included $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research (and where all that money’s…
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24,000 Memphis patients rated their doctors
The Healthy Memphis Common Table is an effort to help patients and providers take charge of improving the city’s health.…
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