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Congressional primer on Health Policy
Bob Lyke of the Congressional Research Service put together a 20-page report on the underlying problems and major issues facing…
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Looking for a medical wiki? Here are 67!
Blogger David Rothman compiled an exhaustive, 67-entry list of medical wikis. Entries range from general medical sites (such as WebHealth…
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Politico names movers and shakers in Health Policy
Politico‘s Carrie Budoff Brown profiled four lesser-known movers and shakers in the coming brawl over health care reform (as well…
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Drug companies paid for mock journals
According to TheScientist.com’s Bob Grant, Merck paid health publisher Elsevier to publish six journals earlier this decade, a relationship that…
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Map shows hotspots of mental distress
Ker Than reports in National Geographic News on an intriguing map showing the percentage of folks in each American county…
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LA Times looks at H1N1’s roots, early days
Los Angeles Times reporter Tracy Wilkinson dug deeper into the story of the discovery of H1N1 in the Oaxaca hospital…
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Sebelius to present HHS budget at 1 p.m. ET
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will provide an overview of the HHS budget for fiscal year 2010 at…
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Panel: Is media to blame for pharma’s poor image?
Several months ago, Ray Kerins, a top Pfizer public relations exec, bemoaned the perception of the pharmaceutical industry in a…
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Columnist: Some coverage of H1N1 over the top
Los Angeles Times columnist James Rainey reviews recent coverage of the spread of H1N1, finding that while many stories tried…
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Hospitals add real patients to ad campaigns
Andrew Adam Newman reports in The New York Times on the state of hospital advertising, citing some specific cases to…
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