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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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What really happened at Memorial after Katrina?
In a story that is being co-published by The New York Times Magazine and ProPublica, Sheri Fink, M.D., painstakingly reconstructed…
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Kleyman: Reform scare tactics hurt ethnic elders
Paul Kleyman of New America Media about a cruel twist: the “death panels” label propagated by some extremists may serve…
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U.S. turned a ‘blind eye’ to organ trafficking
ProPublica’s Emily Witt has attempted to figure out how the live-donor organ trafficking scheme exposed in the recent massive New…
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McKenna, Dockser Marcus awarded fellowships
AHCJ members Maryn McKenna and Amy Dockser Marcus are among the 10 Dart Center Ochberg Fellows, named by the Dart…
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Schwitzer: One-sided push for screening wrong
On his Schwitzer health news blog, University of Minnesota journalism professor, HealthNewsReview.org editor and AHCJ member Gary Schwitzer reminds journalists…
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