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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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How well does your state oversee nurses?
Photo by fyunkie via FlickrCharles Ornstein and Tracy Weber of ProPublica reported a series of stories about breakdowns in California's…
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KQED takes stock of food safety measures
California public radio station KQED explored food inspection and safety at all levels of the process, from producer to consumer,…
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Documentary tonight examines health care system
The documentary “Money-Driven Medicine,” based on a 2006 book of the same name by Maggie Mahar, will air tonight on…
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FDA drug-monitoring system tricky, promising
Doctors Jerry Avorn and Sebastian Schneeweiss write in the New England Journal of Medicine that the Sentinel Network the FDA…
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CJR: Where did ‘death panels’ come from?
AHCJ president Trudy Lieberman, writing for CJR.org, traced rumors of “death panels” in the Obama reform plan back to radio…
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