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    • Substance Use Disorder Treatment Centers: Uncovering Fraud and Advancing Policies to Promote Best Practices
    • Paid sick leave: just as important as paid family and medical leave
    • Cancer Journal: SHATTERED
    • The Importance of Diversity and Equity in Medicine and Research: Healthcare Triage Podcast
    • *DEADLINE EXTENDED* | HSR Special Issue Call for Abstracts: Translating Research into Policy and Action
    • The Facts About Vaccine Passports
    • *REMINDER* | HSR Special Issue Call for Abstracts: Translating Research into Policy and Action
    • Blood Clots, FDA Approval, and the AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine
    • What’s Behind the Growth in Alcohol Consumption?
    • The Infosphere as a SDOH: Leveraging Providers’ Influence to Counter Vaccine Misinformation
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  • We are the introverts

      02/23/2013
      Austin Frakt

    Via Explore and h/t Paul Kelleher.

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  • Fortune 500 in 2030

      01/26/2013
      Austin Frakt

    From DogHouseDiaries:

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  • How the future happened

      01/12/2013
      Austin Frakt

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  • Revolution

      01/05/2013
      Austin Frakt

    By Zack Weiner:

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  • Zeno’s advent calendar

      12/22/2012
      Austin Frakt

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  • Health care maze

      12/08/2012
      Austin Frakt

    By Ji Lee and accompanying this NY Times opinion piece.

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  • Sex voucher

      10/27/2012
      Austin Frakt

    From the New Yorker:

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  • Warning

      10/20/2012
      Austin Frakt

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  • Baby-saving noises only

      10/13/2012
      Austin Frakt

    By Zack Weiner:

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  • Unemployed Bigbird

      10/06/2012
      Austin Frakt

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