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Hensley: New FDA chief looks to be tough
According to NPR Health Blog’s Scott Hensley, newly confirmed FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg sounds like she means business. Hamburg vowed…
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Making sense of Health Policy rumors
The New York Times‘ Robert Pear and David M. Herszenhorn do their best to help regular folks understand the increasingly…
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AHRQ names decade’s five costliest conditions
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the five costliest conditions from 1996 to 2006 were heart disease,…
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Antiaging hormone therapies unproven, carry risks
In Self magazine, Harriet Brott reports on the rise of Suzanne Somers-esque hormone therapies to combat the signs of aging.…
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Collins unanimously confirmed as head of NIH
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., has been unanimously confirmed as director of the National Institutes of Health, HHS Secretary Kathleen…
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Post documents self-referred, in-house scans
The Washington Post‘s Shankar Vedantam explores the well-documented phenomenon in which physicians who own scanners are far, far more likely…
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Novel H1N1 ‘remarkably similar’ to seasonal flu
Sarasota Health News editor and reporter David Gulliver talked to experts and listened to press conferences to produce a primer…
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Editorial writers discuss Health Policy coverage
The Washington Post Writers Group, in its online Editorial Roundtable, discusses how editorial writers have been handling the health care…
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Embargoes: Bloggers say WSJ policy has changed
PaidContent.org reports that several sources say The Wall Street Journal has changed its policy on accepting embargoes. A Journal spokesperson…
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Emotion used on both sides of health care debate
Newsy.com provides a round up of the debate over health care, finding that fear is fueling both sides of the…
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