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Domestic violence, budgets and the economy
Domestic violence is a threat to public health that often only reaches our consciousness when death or celebrity are involved.…
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Unsealed papers prove Wyeth was behind articles
Court documents show that Wyeth, maker of Premarin and Prempro, was involved in the writing of 26 scientific papers that…
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Morning shows’ health news called dangerous
HealthNewsReview.org publisher and University of Minnesota Professor Gary Schwitzer writes that, through their ratings, his team has found an unfortunate…
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IOM report details H1N1 resources
Like many organizations, the Institutes of Medicine had an eye on pandemic influenza (and related pandemic diseases) well before H1N1…
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Pew: Health care again tops week’s media coverage
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, which monitors 55 news outlets and about 1,300 stories across all…
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NPR: Reform arguments confuse folks
NPR’s Liz Halloran reports that while many understand that the nation’s health system may need to be changed, and that…
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Kaiser tool compares Health Policy proposals
The Kaiser Family Foundation has put together a thorough, handy tool for comparing various health care reform proposals, one which…
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Decline in science journalism hurts health reporting
In The Nation, Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum assess the state of science journalism and seek to answer “how did…
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FDA opposes antibiotics overuse in animal feeding
Citing the dangers of drug-resistant microbes, newly appointed Food and Drug Administration chief Joshua Sharfstein testified against the over-use of…
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Reform coverage that raises important questions
AHCJ president Trudy Lieberman, writing for CJR.org, points to several stories about health care reform that raise important questions about…
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