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Increase in prescriptions from docs could mean increase in perks for them

Lisa Chedekel of the Connecticut Health I-Team has found that in some cases "practitioners who wrote out hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of prescriptions were also receiving thousands in […]
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Is food-safety oversight keeping up with the surge in farmers markets?

"As the number of farmers markets has surged questions arise about whether food-safety oversight has kept pace. The USDA and the FDA set federal guidelines, wbut jurisdiction over farmers markets […]
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Taking a look at how foreign-trained doctors impact a community

In a three-part series The Bakersfield Californian examines Kern County, California's high number of foreign-trained doctors and the impact it has on patient care. Using the training she learned at […]
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Black lung still threatening lives

"An investigation by NPR and the Center for Public Integrity found federal regulators and the mining industry are failing to protect miners from the excessive toxic coal mine dust that […]
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Florida's worst TB outbreak in 20 years ignored

"A Palm Beach Post investigation has found that a CDC officer had reported a tuberculosis outbreak in Jacksonville, Fla., one of the worst his group had seen in 20 years, […]
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Narcotic pain medicine use on the rise among seniors

"A Journal Sentinel investigation by John Fauber and Ellen Gabler has found that, increasingly, narcotic drugs have been prescribed for chronic pain, an area where their safety and effectiveness is […]
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Children who skip vaccinations raise threat of dangerous outbreak

An Arizona Star investigation has found that "one in three Arizona schools last year had kindergarten classes with vaccination rates so low children were left vulnerable to infectious disease outbreaks […]
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Flame retardants and the big business behind them

A Chicago Tribune investigation has found that the flame retardants that are packed into couches, chairs and many other products are not working as promised. Furthermore, two powerful industries--Big Tobacco […]
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White House sought healthier school lunches, food industry fought back

Duff Wilson and Janet Roberts, for Reuters, report on "how food and beverage companies have dominated policymaking in Washington by doubling their lobbying expenditures during the past three years and […]
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EPA fails to warn families of lead contamination where smelters once stood

"USA Today’s investigative team found the EPA failed to tell people about or take action on hundreds of former lead smelting sites they’d known about for years. Alison Young and […]
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