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DoD campaigns against stigma of depression, PTSD
The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury’s new Real Warriors campaign is designed to aid…
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Politifact, AP fact check health care claims
Angie Drobnic Holan, writing on the St. Petersburg Times‘ Politifact site, has composed a point-by-point debunking of a lengthy anti-reform…
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Available data on children falls short
David Crary of the Associated Press writes about weak, outdated and insufficient data in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual…
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Disabled student abuse goes unpunished in Nev.
Darcy Spears, a reporter at KTNV-Las Vegas, has discovered a number of disturbing stories of teachers abusing special needs students…
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Medical defense focuses on anthrax, H1N1
Project BioShield was formed because the United States government felt it needed to support the development of “medical countermeasures” such…
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Hensley joins NPR’s expanding health team
AHCJ member Scott Hensley, founding editor of and former contributor to The Wall Street Journal‘s Health Blog, joins National Public…
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Former CDC boss now ABC health/medical editor
Richard Besser, M.D., the acting director of the CDC during the first six months of 2009 (CDC bio), will become…
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NIH on Wikipedia: If you can’t beat ’em…
The Washington Post‘s Ibby Caputo reports that the National Institutes of Health, upon realizing that more folks are looking for…
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Reporter finds voices of prescription drug abuse
In an ongoing series, reporter Elaine Grant of New Hampshire Public Radio has worked to inform the public about prescription…
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Senate idea: Tax plastic surgery to pay for reform
Peter Cohn of NationalJournal.com reports that the Senate Finance Committee has discussed, among other things, a 10 percent tax on…
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