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AHCJ calls for better information from hospital accreditation Web site
The Association of Health Care Journalists has called upon the Joint Commission, the nonprofit agency that accredits hospitals, to do…
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New CDC data pinpoint heart disease hot spots
Data from Medicare records of more than 28 million people each year between 2000 and 2006 in the 50 states,…
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List of 2009’s best includes health care stories
Conor Friedersdorf of TrueSlant.com includes a number of health-care related stories among his list of best journalism of 2009. See…
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Medi-Cal officials’ travel linked to drug makers
Records and interviews show that “Three California officials who oversee billions of dollars in Medi-Cal prescription drug spending have failed…
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OPM: Don’t restrict our pharmacy contracts
“Nearly 30 percent of the government’s $39 billion health plan goes to cover prescription drugs,” writes Stephen Losey of Federal…
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Doctor/blogger: Can’t depend on science reporting
Val Jones, M.D., a blogger at Science-Based Medicine and president and CEO of a health education company, tees off on…
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Reading lists for health care journalists
In her column for Generations Beat Online, AHCJ member Eileen Beal offers a reading list for health journalists and focuses…
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Group’s tours highlight pollution in West Oakland
California Watch’s Ali Winston writes that to increase awareness of both legacy and ongoing sources of toxins in their venerable…
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Coincidence leads to remarkable transplant story
Last month, Salt Lake Tribune reporter Heather May was following a family as they waited for the liver donation that…
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Health care summit streaming live
President Barack Obama is hosting a bipartisan meeting to discuss health care reform. The meeting, from 10 a.m. until 4…
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