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Reporter Offers Guidance for When the News Gets Personal

Los Angeles Times health reporter Anna Gorman believes first person health stories can be appropriate. That's why she shared about her deeply personal decision too undergo breast and ovarian surgeries to dramatically lower her own cancer risk.

Florida's Child Health Care Law Leaves Thousands in Limbo

As the Medicaid expansion became a higher priority for lawmakers, two state bills that would eliminate a five-year waiting period to access a public health insurance program for at least 20,000 lawfully residing poor children failed to pass this year.

National Instant Recess Honors Fitness Activist Antronette Yancey

What happens when you get up and move 10 minutes each day? Here's a look at how people across the country stopped what they were doing and collectively took Instant Recess to honor Antronette Yancey—physician, scientist, advocate—by exercising in a way she inspired.

Avoidance of Vaccination leads to life long Disability

Raj Kumari lost vision in her right eye due to measles. She was never vaccinated for the disease.

Booby Traps: Pitfalls along the path of genetic testing and mastectomies

I had decided to get genetic testing, and I told everyone who cared that if it came back positive, I'd have both my breasts removed. I thought I was ready for that.

Infant formula study evokes range of reactions

Some headlines earlier this week made it sound like the reigning orthodoxy of exclusive breast-feeding was crumbling. The actual study turns out to be quite a bit more narrow and nuanced than the headlines let on.

Double Mastectomy: Think Twice. Reflections on the media firestorm unleashed by Angelina Jolie

A viable treatment option for women who already have breast cancer, mastectomy has become a controversial procedure for women who want to reduce their chances of getting it in the first place.

Untangling Obamacare: What’s behind the rate increases?

Insurance premium rate hikes just keep coming. With these increases come lots of questions from the public, questions that journalists will be asked to address. Here's a primer on some of the nuts and bolts of rates and premiums, which, not so incidently are key to Obamacare's success or failure.

One mom's story of recovery from postpartum depression plus resources

Laura Vollset, a Santa Cruz mother of twins, agreed to share her story of recovery from postpartum depression to encourage other mothers to see help.

Disparity Watch: Early Stimulation Gives Rich Kids Enduring Edge

Researchers who have studied the disparity in educational achievement between rich and poor children over the last few decades have found more affluent children trump their peers before the first day of preschool.

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