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Health Policy scrapes by on $1 trillion
You might think that more than $1 trillion, even when spread over 10 years, would be enough to cure all…
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Hearst team undertakes health investigation
Editor & Publisher’s Joe Strupp reports that journalists with Hearst Corporation are working on a company-wide investigation into an “unidentified…
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Homeless man teaches MD about inequalities
The Chicago Tribune‘s Judith Graham tells the story of a doctor who befriended a homeless man who sold StreetWise magazine…
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FDA considers certification to prescribe opioids
Photo by Vaprotan via Flickr Writing on the Off the Charts blog, Jacob Molyneux of the American Journal of Nursing…
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First class of AHCJ-NLM fellows announced
Six journalists have been named fellows in the program, created this year to increase reporters’ access and understanding of the…
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Swine flu blues: Vaccinations could be delayed
Summertime and forgetting about swine flu is easy. But the World Health Organization yanked us back to reality. The H1N1…
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Poor, rural hospitals have higher death rates
USA Today‘s Steve Sternberg and Jack Gillum expanded upon a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report showing higher death…
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Schwarzenegger replaces nursing board members following ProPublica, LA Times investigation
Late Monday, Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger replaced nearly everyone on the state’s Board of Registered Nursing, “citing the unacceptable length…
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Online chat focuses on lobbying, health care reform
The folks at opensecrets.org, from the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics, will take their commitment to following the money through…
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Former Cigna exec continues speaking out
We’ve written before about Wendell Potter, the former public relations executive at Cigna, and how he is speaking out about…
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