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The Home-Birth Debate Reprised

Unnecessary angioplasties, friendlier relations between insurers and care providers, hospitals that cater to the patient rather than focusing purely on the disease, and more from our Daily Briefing.

Commutation Order Brings Shaken Baby Syndrome into the News

A commutation of sentence for grandmother Shirley Ree Smith has brought the medical debate around shaken baby syndrome back into the news.

Ethan Watters

Ethan Watters is the author of “Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche,” an examination of the cultural underpinnings of mental illness. A frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Discover, Men’s Journal, Details, Wired and PRI's “This American Life,” he also has appeared on “Good Morning America,” “Talk of the Nation,” CNN and “The Daily Show.” His work has been featured in “The Best American Science and Nature Writing” book series.

The Nonprofiteers

Sheri Fink won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting this year for her compelling narrative about life-and-death choices made by health care providers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. While the story ran in The New York Times Magazine, she did her reporting while enmeshed in the nonprofit journalism world, as a Kaiser Media Fellow and later as a reporter at the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica.