Never write a story about a health-related treatment without talking about costs. I wish health reporters would stitch that onto their pillows so they could see it every morning when they wake up.
Did a Los Angeles hospital dump a schizophrenic patient onto Skid Row, as his wife claims? Or did the hospital merely "drop him off" at a halfway house?
Identity theft fighters want faster ways to see whether a person is stealing someone else’s persona. Could digital death certificates — searchable by the public and by journalists — be of help?
It would be interesting to see exactly what evidence finally tipped the scales at Allergan. Why did the Lap-Band maker finally stop selling its product to doctors participating in the aggressively marketed 800-GET-THIN weight loss surgery campaign?
Dan Wood, the new PIO at California's Medical Board, isn't fazed by reporters' questions. After all, he used to ask the same ones.
What do medical board information officers do, anyway? Antidote blogger William Heisel interviews a former journalist who's the new point man for the California Medical Board.
It’s not often that Antidote will ask you to run out and buy a copy of Liver International. But please do. A moving argument for protecting free speech about public health appears in the journal’s current issue.
Death certificates can be among the paving stones leading to a dangerous health practitioner. Here's a case in point.
Was Prime Healthcare gaming the Medicare billing system with obscure diagnoses? Or was it just playing by the rules? Here are three questions to ponder.
 The specter of Jethro Tull looms over stories about Prime Healthcare's suspect Medicare billing practices.
