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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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Blog seeks input on Health Policy from Californians
KQED, San Francisco’s public radio and television organization, is soliciting ideas from health care professionals, reform advocates and the public…
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Complementary and alternative medicine: What’s working and what’s ahead
Naturopathic and Western medical doctors met journalistic skeptics and true believers to discuss the science and scams that mix in…
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H1N1 fears put graduation tradition on hold
Oklahoma State University has joined a growing list of institutions where administrators will not be shaking graduates’ hands during commencement…
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Study: Weak science in hospital press releases
Reporters often come under fire for subpar or sensationalized coverage of medical science, but a new study by researchers from…
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Senate committee holds health care reform hearing
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mt.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are holding the second of three conversations on…
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Hackers hold Va. prescription database hostage
Some very nasty folks disabled a Virginia state Web site containing confidential prescription information, reportedly deleting more than 8 million…
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AHCJ member reports from Zambia, Malawi
WUNC reporter and AHCJ member Rose Hoban tackled abortions in Zambia, AIDs orphans in Malawi, medical education in Africa and…
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Shute, McCarthy chosen for new boot camp
Two AHCJ members are among the inaugural class of the Knight Digital Media Center’s News Entrepreneur Boot Camp. Nancy Shute,…
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Hospital apologizes after banning newspaper
The Hackensack University Medical Center has apologized to The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record for banning its sale on hospital grounds…
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