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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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Prevention vs. treatment in global health
AHCJ members Christine Gorman and Maryn McKenna participated in a blog experiment, in which a group of people decide to…
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Analysis shows pitfalls of observational studies
How much of a chance are you willing to take on a chance finding? That’s the question raised in a…
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Registration for Health Journalism 2009 is open
Planning for AHCJ’s annual conference – in Seattle, April 16-19 – is moving full-speed ahead. Check out the Web site…
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Reviewers find increase in five-star health stories
Is the quality of health journalism improving? Apparently it is, according to the HealthNewsReview.org project, which was created nearly three…
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Md. hospitals sue patients despite state subsidies
Reporters Fred Schulte and James Drew looked into how low-income people afford care and how the hospitals collects payments. They…
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Wyeth-funded course promoted hormone therapy
John Fauber and Susanne Rust of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel continue the paper’s examination of the influence that drug companies…
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