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Lieberman: Pollack wrong, reform coverage lacking
Last week, Harold Pollack (bio), a University of Chicago professor who has been contributing to The New Republic‘s The Treatment…
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CMS, HHS unveiling transparency efforts
A beta Medicare Dashboard designed to “use inpatient hospital payment and volume information to visualize trends in the use of…
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AHCJ clarifies statement on medical meeting rules
The Association of Health Care Journalists has posted a clarification to a March announcement concerning restrictions on reporters who cover…
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In 2008, fewer preterm babies, more cesareans
Births in the United States went down nearly 2 percent in 2008, according to new figures [PDF] from the CDC’s…
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Officials struggle with timing of outbreak alerts
The Redding (Calif.) Record Searchlight‘s Ryan Sabalow put together a local take on ongoing inconsistencies in how local health departments…
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Challenges of rural health care get a closer look
David Wahlberg, the health and medicine reporter at the Wisconsin State Journal, has embarked on a project to examine “the…
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Food makes up a quarter of Calif. household waste
California Watch wraps up its three-part series on hunger in that state with a look at how much food is…
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Reporter’s requests were on behalf of investigators
In recent days, news coverage has detailed how a freelance health journalist was hired by a private investigative firm to…
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Patient safety expert Pronovost is keynote speaker
Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., a professor at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the Quality and Safety Research Group, will…
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Journal Sentinel creates overdose database
Tom Kertscher of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analyzed 1,200 fatal overdoses that occurred in the greater Milwaukee area over the…
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