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Harkin aims to fast-track legislation on compounding pharmacies, drug tracking

A senior Senate Democrat aims to expedite legislation that would establish both a track-and-trace system for drugs and a new regulatory framework for compounding pharmacies....

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Charles Graeber, author of The Good Nurse

Podcast: 'Good Nurse' author Charles Graeber

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Featured Commentary

Focus on value

Leah Binder | April 27, 2013
"Of all the transformations reshaping American healthcare, none is more profound than the shift toward value.”
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Dissecting the president's budget

Merrill Goozner | April 13, 2013
From a healthcare perspective, the release of President Barack Obama's budget last week was extremely disturbing—and not because of the new...
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Featured Content

Celebrity impact

Jaimy Lee | May 18, 2013
Celebrities drive average Americans to want what they have. That powerful impulse could prove complicated for some women who fear they're at high...
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Exclusion efforts

Joe Carlson | May 18, 2013
Amid looming shortages in healthcare workers, one branch of the federal government is ramping up aggressive efforts to keep some of them far away...
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Accreditation

Osteopaths make headway in conventional medicine

Washington Post | March 12, 2013
Since 1985, residency programs have had the option to be dual-accredited by both M.D. and D.O. organizations. In 2015, all D.O. and M.D. programs...
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No surprises in final essential-benefits rule

Jessica Zigmond | February 20, 2013
HHS on Wednesday released a final regulation on the health reform law's essential health benefits, actuarial value and accreditation provisions that...
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Comparative Effectiveness

Cardinal Health, La. Blues team on cancer care

Maureen McKinney | October 22, 2012
Cardinal Health has teamed up with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana in an effort to improve cancer care in Louisiana through the use of...
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PCORI seeks new comparative-effectiveness projects

Jessica Zigmond | September 17, 2012
A new cycle of funding for as much as $96 million in comparative-effectiveness research is now open, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute...
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Never Events

Healthcare called key driver of federal deficit

Andis Robeznieks | March 22, 2013
A sober discussion on trimming $4 trillion from the national debt got off to an unusual start. Erskine Bowles, who was co-chairman of a commission on...
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Researcher: U.S. 'nowhere near' where it should be on medical never events

Maureen McKinney | December 19, 2012
They might be known by the term "never events," but a newly released analysis from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, finds that serious surgical...
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Public Health

W.Va. gov picks new health secretary

Lawrence Messina / Associated Press | May 22, 2013
Former hospital executive and nurse Karen Bowling will become West Virginia's Health and Human Resources secretary on July 1, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin...
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The health toll of immigration

New York Times | May 20, 2013
A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high...
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