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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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Key CMS database unresponsive, inadequate
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General released a memo (27-page PDF) detailing an investigation that…
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More Health Policy myth Whac-A-Mole
As part of his Health Care Fact Check series, the Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s Stephen Koff looks into the theory that…
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Whole Foods CEO linked to health-care industry
Laurie Bennett of Muckety looks at John Mackey, CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods, author of op-ed in the Wall…
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Herbicide levels high in many water supplies
Recent reports indicate that current federal standards may allow dangerous levels of the herbicide atrazine into water supplies, especially in…
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