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How marketing turned Zyprexa into blockbuster
Ben Wallace-Wells of Rolling Stone uses the story of the rise of Zyprexa, Eli Lilly’s blockbuster schizophrenia treatment, to look…
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Stimulus funds study of effectiveness of treatments
Robert Pear reports in The New York Times that $1.1 billion of the $787 billion federal economic stimulus package will…
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Jost discusses consumer-driven health plans
In the latest installment of the Columbia Journalism Review‘s “Excluded Voices” series, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors,…
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Lax oversight, complex supply chains aid outbreaks
In the wake of recent food-borne salmonella outbreaks, Justina Wang of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle found that a combination…
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Site tracks schools’ conflict-of-interest policies
AHCJ member Peggy Noonan sent a note about a useful Web site to the organization’s electronic discussion list that is…
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Mercury may lurk in high fructose corn syrup
In the Columbia Daily Tribune, dietitian and columnist Melinda Hemmelgarn discusses a 2005 study recently published in Environmental Health in…
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CDC working to uncover cause of autism
This is a guest post from Elizabeth Fernandez of the San Francisco Chronicle. Fernandez is among the first class of…
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Doctor suggests reforms to stop foodborne illness
Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dennis G. Maki, M.D. takes a look at foodborne illness, the sources…
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Researchers study health bloggers, form community
Last fall, a trio of researchers from the Rijeka School of Medicine in Croatia published a paper examining that peculiar…
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Researchers study health bloggers, form online community
Last fall, a trio of researchers published a paper examining that peculiar class of people who may be loosely described…
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