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Nurses push to make up for physician shortages
Kaiser Health News’ Andrew Villegas reports that the nation’s 125,000-plus nurse practitioners (and physician assistants, certified nurse midwives and dental…
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Newspaper, news service team up for medical news
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today, a medical news service for doctors, will collaborate to produce articles on medical…
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Public records shed light on Texas blood samples
The Texas Tribune‘s Emily Ramshaw got her hands on almost a decade of public e-mails that help show the thoughts…
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Schwitzer’s HealthNewsReview blog wins award
MedGadget, the “Internet journal of emerging medical technologies,” announced that AHCJ member Gary Schwitzer’s HealthNewsReview blog, won Best Medical Weblog…
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Papers combine forces to investigate group homes
Reporters from The Oklahoman and the Tulsa World teamed up to report on Oklahoma’s residential care homes and “Intermediate Care…
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Reporters use county rankings for analysis
On Feb. 17, rankings of the relative health of counties in each American state were released by the Robert Wood…
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Defaulted doctors: Hundreds fail to pay on loans
More than 300 health care providers who received Health Education Assistance Loans made no payments during 2008, despite having earned…
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Disparities in health care complex, hard to correct
Seven years after the landmark IOM study which established that racial minorities had worse health and were getting poorer care…
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Calif. reluctant to boost Medi-Cal’s anti-fraud staff
California Watch’s Christina Jewett reports on the California Assembly’s lukewarm response to the assertion of Medi-Cal’s fraud busters that, with…
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Homemade poisonous gas may endanger EMTs
The Tampa Tribune‘s Keith Morelli reports that homemade poisonous gases, which he says are growing in popularity among those who…
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