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Doctor’s offices consumed by insurance hassles
Tamara Keith of the public radio program “Marketplace” went into a doctor’s office to find out where the money’s being…
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University’s ties to testosterone therapy questioned
When it comes to sketchy medicine, female hormone therapies have company. According to reporter John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal…
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Parikh defends Emanuel of ‘death panel’ fame
Pediatrician and blogger Rahul Parikh published an defense of Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an Obama adviser and the right wing’s latest…
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Pew: Health care coverage still tops news
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has found that health care coverage filled more available news space…
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Markets offer examples to improve costs, quality
In a New York Times op-ed, Atul Gawande, Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher and Mark McClellan discuss a recent meeting of…
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Does stimulus-funded research stimulate?
Reporter Michelle Breidenbach of the Syracuse, N.Y., Post-Standard considers local academic research being funded by stimulus money and wonders just…
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Mining NLM databases: PubMed, Medline and more
Speakers came to Health Journalism 2009's "Mining Pub Med Central and MedlinePlus" panel armed with information to help journalists better…
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Canada takes Monsanto, Dow’s word on safety
Martin Mittelstaedt of the Toronto Globe and Mail looks into the Canadian government’s approval of “one of the most complicated…
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Insurance industry positioned to profit from reform
In BusinessWeek, Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein write that major insurance companies have already succeeded in defining the debate over…
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Propofol abuse a concern in medical profession
Alicia Mundy of The Wall Street Journal reports that abuse of the common anesthetic propofol has become a problem the…
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