July 30, 2009
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Four days after Michael Jackson died of an unexpected heart attack on June 25, Dr. John Dombrowski,an anesthesiologist and pain... more
July 30, 2009
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Trudy Lieberman is the president of The Association of Health Care Journalists board of directors, and she is the director of the health and medicine reporting program at the Graduate School of... more
July 30, 2009
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We live in California. That means wildfire. But in some areas, particularly poor rural ones surrouned by federal forest land, the smoke could be slowly making residents sick.
This spring,... more
July 29, 2009
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It sounds like a line a standup comic might use while flailing for a laugh: "What's a guy gotta do around here to get arrested? Steal somebody's kidney?"
If you are a doctor in a hospital... more
July 28, 2009
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Here's a quick roundup of recent articles localizing the potential impact of federal health reform and California's health budget cuts (see Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's additional $656 million in... more
July 26, 2009
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July 24, 2009
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Dr. Sidney Wolfe, the acting president of Public Citizen and the head of its... more
July 22, 2009
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Here's more coverage of the California budget cuts and their impact on health care, along with some new ideas for stories.
The general media consensus is that the state's Republicans... more
July 22, 2009
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Ask your doctors about the hardest period of their lives, and they likely will say their medical residency. The hours are long. The work is mentally and physically exhausting. There's little... more
July 21, 2009
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As California lawmakers finally reach a budget agreement, it's time to start assessing... more
July 20, 2009
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Public Citizen put together an important report in May that was mostly missed by the... more
July 17, 2009
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July 15, 2009
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To be generous, we could say that Dr. Alexander Kalk of Creve Coeur, Mo. was a workaholic.
He literally lived in his medical office, according to the medical board in Missouri, and was so... more
