Day: January 5, 2013

Ohio doctors settle in angioplasty overuse case

Austin Frakt January 5, 2013

The settlement covered accusations that the doctors and the hospital, then known as the EMH Regional Medical Center, had billed Medicare for unnecessary medical care

Chicago homicides aren’t soaring. But it’s bad enough, and we can do better.

Harold Pollack January 5, 2013

There’s much wonderful reporting in Monica Davey’s front-page New York Times’ piece on Chicago’s current homicide challenge. But I hate the headline: “In a Soaring

Revolution

Austin Frakt January 5, 2013

By Zack Weiner: @afrakt

Chart of the day: Deaths from drugs, poison, and cars

Austin Frakt January 5, 2013

Click to enlarge. H/t: Claire Boissevain-Crooke. The source document is by Christopher Jones of the CDC (PDF). Other charts therein show that the vast majority of

Day: January 5, 2013

Ohio doctors settle in angioplasty overuse case

Chicago homicides aren’t soaring. But it’s bad enough, and we can do better.

Revolution

Chart of the day: Deaths from drugs, poison, and cars

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