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Understanding Medicare: Tackling End-of-Life Costs

For most politicians dealing with Medicare reform, end-of-life cost is one issue that dare not speak its name. Here's what you need to know about this "third-rail" topic.

Bedside Bankroll

With no licensing or certification, anyone can practice in-home elder care in California—and in wealthy Marin, opportunity for fraud abounds.

Parkinson's Alley

Recent studies have found statistical links between pesticide use and an outbreak of Parkinson's disease in California farm towns. Researchers even know which chemicals are the likely culprits. What's the government doing about it? Not much.

Too Much Arsenic in Our Juice? Consumer Reports Says Yes

Too much arsenic found in fruit juice, good news for kids' health, and a drugstore chain's fight against prescription drug abuse, plus more from our Daily Briefing.

Delivering Together: A Partnership With Ethnic Media on Senior Health Stories

At first it seemed pretty improbable. How could six, seven, eight different ethnic media outlets work together on one health story? What one issue would be compelling enough to interest them? Journalist Richard Kipling examines how the Home Alone project came together.

Forty percent of Medicare spending on common cancer screenings unnecessary, probe suggests

An iWatch News investigation documents $1.9 billion in wasted federal health care expenditures.

Reporting on Aging: Health Reform, Ethnicity and Income In The Mix

Journalist Paul Kleyman, who has covered aging issues for more than 20 years, offers tips for covering aging as health reform gets underway.

Access Denied: Oklahoma's Health Care Crisis

The first in a three part series on the causes behind Oklahoma's lack of access to health care, including a physician shortage, geographic disparities and lack of transportation options.

Forget the Anthony Weiner Scandal – Consider the Sacking of New York’s Medicaid Inspector General

The Anthony Weiner scandal, to my mind, was the least interesting news coming out of New York political circles last week. The most interesting is the apparent sacking of New York's aggressive Medicaid Inspector General.

E. coli in Germany: It Was the Bean Sprouts, After All

Finally, Germany's E. coli mystery solved, new Medicaid protections for gay couples, parents' vaccine worries and more from our Daily Briefing.

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