In case you haven’t heard, food giant General Mills is experiencing a bit of a backlash over its newly launched Multi-Grain Peanut Butter Cheerios. People concerned about the cereal’s impact on those with peanut allergies have protested the new flavor; voices are particularly vehement among mommy bloggers – some of whom even have called for a [...]
Brian Grow and Matthew Bigg of Reuters hit the streets of Miami to see if some Medicare providers were legitimate. In two buildings, they found 26 companies billing Medicare. They checked incorporation records and found “information that one government official said could prompt ‘a serious criminal investigation’ of some of the companies,” the story says.
Associated Press has just served up a timely topic ripe for localizing in a feature on how “Uninsured turn to daily deals sites for health care.”
After the indulgences of the last quarter — be they financial, food-related or just an accumulation of more stuff — many people are overtaken with a self-improvement bug as they open crisp new calendars to January. And that’s good news for businesses that perhaps were idle during the hedonistic holidays but now are in demand [...]
Inadequate nursing home care has created headlines across the country as cases of neglect increase. Robin Erb and Kristi Tanner of the Detroit Free Press found that inspectors in Michigan handed out serious citations nearly twice as often as the national average.
Mandy Locke at The News & Observer gives readers a glimpse into the battle between WakeMed and Rex Healthcare, the area’s largest hospitals. She starts the story with a casual office meeting between golf buddies. After providing some market details about hospitals having to decide “whether they’d be predator or prey,” she returns to the [...]
A couple of developments and year-end issues prompt health-care-related story ideas. And if that’s not your beat, consider reading on anyway; sometimes technology, workplace, small business, personal finance and other ties develop from the main issues. Insurance exchanges. The Department of Health and Human Services just awarded another $220 million in grants to help states [...]
Jack Dolan of the Los Angeles Times in July wrote about a prison surgeon who was the highest-paid state employee at $777,423 – although he hadn’t treated an inmate for six years because medical supervisors didn’t trust his clinical skills.
With the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor going generic this week, tens of millions of consumers are wondering about the effect of the non-brand name version of the drug on their pocketbooks and arteries. Stories about changes to household-name products are always compelling (Netflix price hike? Ocean Spray craisin recall?) and a consumer piece about the pros [...]
