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When The Publication Plan Is Ready, The Research Will Appear

Researching, writing and submitting papers to medical journals--and reworking and finessing them if accepted--is a demanding, time consuming job which drug companies have made into pay dirt.

Immigration Reform: Will It Help or Hurt Medicare?

As Congress grapples with immigration reform, questions are arising about the impact new Americans and legal residents could have on U.S. social programs, among them the health care system.

Changing Your Mind About Doing Time

Can role models improve an ex-con's chances of success? One former prisoner said he attended substance abuse and anger management classes, but that changing his idea of manhood made the biggest difference in being able to quit crime.

Alameda County ahead of curve with realignment

California's prison system reform effort is described as the biggest shift in the criminal justice system in the past 25 years. As counties move forward with their plans, issues have arisen about how the state has allocated funding.

Importing Doctors: Pace of foreign-physician influx may slow

This year, there were 26,772 residency positions in the United States and just 19,230 U.S. medical school graduates to fill them.

USCF Medical Research, Long Behind Journal Paywalls, Now Available Free to Public

The University of California-San Francisco medical school is now the nation's largest to make its faculty research free and available to the public. What does that mean for you?

Giving To Get: Could Organ and Tissue Donors Become Less Selfless?

The long held belief that we should not be allowed to buy or sell pieces of our own bodies is changing. What does that mean for the future of organ donation?

What Reading That "Eat Chocolate, Be Thinner" Article Actually Told Me

A university PR department shamelessly promotes a flawed research study suggesting a link between eating chocolate and being thin.

Ending the silence: Asian Pacific Americans urged to increase HIV/AIDS testing

It is three in the morning and Philip, 27, wakes up from a nightmare that he soon forgets. Vivid dreams and dizziness are recurring experiences, side effects he attributes to taking Atripla, a pill he consumes daily because he has AIDS.

California county bets on bridge to health reform

Kern County, with similar geography and population to Fresno, decided to enter the new health insurance program called Bridge to Reform. On the way, Kern has stumbled upon many challenges, but for some patients, the program has changed their lives.

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