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Lack of health literacy can be fatal
Pauline Chen, M.D., wrote in The New York Times about “health literacy,” arguing that both patients and doctors share the…
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Calif. foundation backs new model; will be hiring
The board of directors of the California HealthCare Foundation met over the weekend and approved funding to create the California…
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State’s paid promotions appear to be newscasts
Tulsa World reporter Kim Archer found that the state of Oklahoma paid a media conglomerate $3 million in exchange for…
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Fla. painkiller industry flourishes, supplies nation
The Miami Herald‘s Scott Hiaasen delved into South Florida’s massive painkiller industry, one which, enabled by loose laws and lax…
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VA officials seize reporter’s audio recording
Mark Segraves of WTOP-FM reports that the memory card from reporter David Schultz’ audio recorder was confiscated by a communications…
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N.J. psychiatric hospital botches drugs, doses
Jean Mikle of the Asbury Park Press chronicled medication errors at Ancora Psychiatric Hospital, New Jersey’s largest such institution. Mikle…
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Obama announces Office of Health Policy
President Barack Obama has, by executive order, established an Office of Health Policy in the White House, with a parallel…
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Stand against hospital deal lands ethics award
Glen Mabie, the former news director at WEAU-Eau Claire, Wis., has won a 2009 Payne Award for Excellence in Journalism.…
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Two vaccines keeping kids out of ERs
Maryn McKenna writes in Annals of Emergency Medicine that the impressive recent success of rotavirus and pneumococcus vaccines has caused…
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Marketing treats risk factors as diseases
Maryann Napoli writes in the American Journal of Nursing that “in the name of prevention, millions of Americans have accepted…
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