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Low-grade Chinese drywall may pose health risk
Aaron Kessler of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune looked into reports of low-grade Chinese drywall emitting foul-smelling gasses containing sulfur compounds that…
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Reports on health indicators, HIPAA released
The Institute of Medicine has proposed 20 specific health indicators to measure the overall health and well-being of Americans. These…
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Health spending in stimulus plan called ‘wasteful’
Congressional Republican leaders have outlined what they think are “wasteful provisions in the Senate version of the nearly $900 billion…
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Smuggled honey may contain dangerous antibiotics
Andrew Schneider of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer spent five months investigating “honey laundering,” the practice of smuggling Chinese honey into the…
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Law may hurt Boston medical convention business
Liz Kowalczyk of The Boston Globe reports that a new Massachusetts law restricting contact between doctors and pharmaceutical companies is…
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NTSB webcasting air ambulance safety hearing
Today the National Transportation Safety Board opened a four-day public hearing on the safety of helicopter emergency medical services operations.…
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Making sense of hospital quality reports
This spring marks 20 years since the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council became the first in the nation to…
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HHS’s new social media team focuses on outbreak
File this one under “No sooner said than done.” Just last week, Pete Blackshaw wrote on the ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com blog that…
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Wis. nonprofit hospitals provide less charity care
David Wahlberg of the Wisconsin State Journal looked into the state’s nonprofit hospitals and found they “provided significantly less free…
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Medscape drops publication of articles
The Medscape Journal of Medicine announced Friday that it is ceasing publication of new articles. The Journal was one element…
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