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Monitoring the Pulse of Health Care Journalism
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Polls, studies used to compare U.S., Canada care
The Associated Press’ Charmaine Noronha takes another look at the Canadian health care system, focusing on the debate over its…
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Sandroff promoted to lead health, family coverage
AHCJ member Ronni Sandroff has been named editorial director, health & family, at Consumer Reports, making her responsible for overall…
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Post-reform plans may still be too spendy for some
Kaiser Health News’ Jordan Rau reports that, even if current health care proposals (Rau focuses on the House bill) were…
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Members’ paper wins national honor
AHCJ members Chris King and Sandra Jordan are among the staff of the St. Louis American, recently judged to be…
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Technology in play to help make football safer
A new multimedia effort from ESPN combines stories, video and graphics to show how technological innovators are working to make…
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Document shows how Lexapro became blockbuster
The New York Times‘ Gardiner Harris digs into just what a recently released document (89-page pdf) shows us about how…
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Seniors could be reform’s largest wild card
Michael Booth and Karen E. Crummy of The Denver Post report that, with AARP effectively neutralized by fire from both…
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Harvard to revise policy on speaking to media
Duff Wilson of The New York Times reports that Harvard Medical School is revising a recent policy that limited students’…
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USA Today matches hospital quality data, tourism
USA Today‘s Steve Sternberg and Jack Gillum put a new spin on federal Hospital Compare ratings and other hospital quality…
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Lack of equipment, protocol could be deadly
Judith Graham of the Chicago Tribune reports that the city’s ambulances don’t have equipment that can detect whether a heart…
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