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Report looks at nonprofits’ health reporting
Maralee Schwartz, a Shorenstein Center Fellow at Harvard University, has written a report titled “Getting It for Free: When Foundations…
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A painful picture of rare childhood mental illness
The Los Angeles Times’ Shari Roan tells the story of a 6-year-old girl suffering from a rare – perhaps even…
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JAMA drops gag rule for whistle-blowers
Disclosure of potential conflicts in health care always seems like a great idea until people start asking questions about you.…
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Fake news sites push scams, drugs
We may be trapped in the midst of a massive economic recession, but at least one sector of the media…
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About 45,000 docs qualify for HIT stimulus money
Researchers at George Washington University have found that approximately 45,000 physicians nationwide qualify for as much as $63,750 each in…
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New CDC tool tracks environmental health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have created what they refer to as an online Environmental Public Health Tracking…
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SF Bay Area station runs sponsored health ‘news’
Michael Mechanic, a senior editor at Mother Jones, blogs about airtime for sale at KRON-San Francisco, a television station that…
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22 percent of kids’ hospital visits sports related
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has sifted through the numbers in the 2006 report “Sports Injuries in Children…
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Food safety initiatives will be subject of online chat
The Obama administration has created a deputy food commissioner position to coordinate safety in the case of an outbreak of…
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NIH rules more stem cells eligible for funding
Right off the bat let’s just note that the promised cures from stem cells have been slow in coming. Science…
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