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Project looks at high price of health care in Dallas
In their “The Cost of Care” package, Dallas Morning News reporters seek to explain why, as Jim Landers says in…
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Reporter discovers data missing from federal Nursing Home Compare
Duane Schrag of the Salina (Kan.) Journal recently discovered critical data was missing from the federal Nursing Home Compare data…
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The anonymous folks who test swabs for H1N1
The Baltimore Sun’s Stephanie Desmon profiled the crew of state workers laboring behind the scenes to test and identify samples…
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Health journo goes it alone without insurance
Freelance health writer and AHCJ founding member Duncan Moore has gained national attention recently for his Los Angeles Times piece…
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Flu plan includes withholding ventilators
Sheri Fink, M.D., of ProPublica, is reporting that state and federal officials are drawing up guidelines on who would get…
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Equal treatment for mental health in peril
Phyllis Vine of MIWatch.org, a site about mental illness, writes that last year’s mental health parity legislation has run into…
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OIG: Are we ready for a flu pandemic?
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has released two reports assessing just how prepared Americans…
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Blogger: Flu reporters got it right this time
Bloggers at Effect Measure have some praise for “flu reporters” and their coverage of a recent NIH press release about…
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Walking school bus hopes to cut traffic, obesity
Just in time for International Walk to School Day (Oct. 7), Bobbie O’Brien of public radio station WUSF-Tampa reports on…
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Bloomberg explains all five House, Senate plans
Bloomberg’s Kristin Jensen and Nicole Gaouette have perused all five proposed health care reform plans, each originating from a different…
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