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Patients must sort, evaluate online health advice
On O’Reilly Radar, Brian Ahier reviews various efforts to help patients sort through the reams of health information online and…
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Comments invited on latest draft of DSM
A new version of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has come out every decade…
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Health reporting resources for journalists on state and local government beats
Health is an essential part of the beat for reporters covering state and local government, even more so as media…
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FCC’s broadband plan includes wireless health tech
The Federal Communications Commission will release a report next month outlining a national broadband plan that is expected to include…
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Lieberman: Media bought into heart docs’ fight
Using one-sided sentences published by newspapers nationwide as evidence, AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman takes her media peers to…
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Florida keeps doctors’ arrests, convictions offline
Health News Florida’s Carol Gentry reports on health department disclosure of the arrest of medical professionals, writing “It’s the policy…
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Parikh examines media’s role in vaccine-autism link
In his latest dispatch, Salon.com contributor and pediatrician Rahul Parikih describes the media as the willing enablers of the decade…
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Radiation oncologists request more regulation
The New York Times’ Walt Bogdanich reviewed the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s new six-point plan, most of which seem…
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Patient 2.0 empowers patients, worries doctors
Writing for Time, Bonnie Rochman digs into the ramifications of patients sharing information and tips online, an “empowerment movement” she…
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Attention focuses on football’s neurological effects
Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger, writing in Time, looks at two things he claims are being overlooked during the…
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