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Career Profile: Flowers, freebies and other wonderful things that come with winning a Pulitzer Prize

A Pulitzer Prize winner talks about her career, her editors and how she got her first break. Also find the latest health media opportunities, this week in Career GPS.

Flying fake cardiologist's publications start to crash, taking co-pilots down too

The charade perpetrated by William Hamman, the United Airlines pilot who had a second, lucrative career as a fake cardiologist, is starting to have consequences.

Ancient Mummies Reveal Clogged Arteries, Despite Lack of Cheeseburgers

Heart disease is at least as ancient as Egyptian mummmies, researchers armed with CT scanners have found. Plus more from our Daily Briefing.

Finally, Some Good News About Whooping Cough

Some good news (finally!) about whooping cough, and a hospital mystery: why was a California hospital named as one of the nation's best when it's being investigated for patient safety problems? 

County Health Rankings 2011: Reporting the Smart (Not Boosterish) Story

Yep, it's that time again: The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today released their second annual rankings of health in America's counties. And so I'm reposting some context and story ideas from last year's rankings - they're still applicable this year.

Reports of criminals in nursing homes beg for perspective

The new report about the criminal histories of nursing home workers from the Office of Inspector General for Department of Health and Human Services has prompted many bold statements. What has been missing from all the alarmist analyses of this report are a few key facts and a sense of perspective.

 

Inspector General Report on Convicted Nursing Home Employees: More Yawn Than Alarm

Are nursing home workers with criminal records really endangering residents? It's hard to tell from a new inspector general's report.

High-tech system helps track hospital patients

This story is Part 5 of a 15-part series that examines health care needs in Gary, Ind.

Once a white washboard with dry erasable markers kept track of the patients in the emergency room at Methodist Hospitals’ Northlake Campus in Gary. The board listed the staff on duty and noted the patients and their ER bed numbers.

Like so many other things in health care, that technology is outdated, replaced by a computerized tracking system produced by the Verona, Wis.-based company that created Methodist’s electronic health record and health care information technology system, EPIC.

Labor Unions and Health

Taking root in Wisconsin, the union battles that are sweeping across the Midwest are about more than pay, benefits and collective bargaining. Attacks on the rights of workers are also an attack on America’s health.

Medical Marijuana, on the Taxpayers' Dime

Why are taxpayers footing the bill for a Florida man's medical marijuana? Answers and more from our Daily Briefing.

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