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HHS releases FOIA report in less-than-ideal format
Bob Garfield of WNYC’s “On the Media” talked to John Wonderlich, policy director at the Sunlight Foundation, about last week’s…
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GAO: Flu-fighting plan needs better measures
The United States Government Accountability Office today released the catchily titled “Monitoring and Assessing the Status of the National Pandemic…
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Corporate clinics scored scarce H1N1 shots
USA Today‘s Alison Young reviewed state H1N1 vaccine distribution information from Florida, Texas and Georgia, finding that “When the swine…
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Petit: Less variety seen in science news
The Poynter Insitute’s Mallary Jean Tenore writes about the disappearing science beat. She talks to Natalie Angier, who writes about…
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Star-Tribune looks into fatal falls in nursing homes
Minneapolis Star-Tribune reporters Glenn Howatt and Pam Louwagie analyzed death certificates and found that about 1,000 Minnesota deaths between 2002…
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More than 22,000 inmates are HIV-positive
Poynter’s Al Tompkins spotted a new U.S. Department of Justice report (PDF) on HIV in American prisons. Among other things,…
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FDA’s database of food production sites is lacking
A new HHS inspector general’s report sheds light on problems in the FDA’s Food Facility Registy (PDF), finding that almost…
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Google partners with papers for ‘living stories’
Bringing together the reporting of two major newspapers and the technical savvy of Google, “Living Stories” presents articles, timelines and…
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Blog tracks Canadian health policy reports
Canadian journalist Carl Meyer has turned reportscanada.ca into a one-stop clearinghouse of policy reports from the Canadian government and non-governmental…
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Legacy of Agent Orange continues in U.S., Vietnam
The Chicago Tribune is in the middle of an ambitious five-part series in which reporters Jason Grotto and Tim Jones…
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