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Daily Briefing: HIV-Prevention Pill, FDA Scandal and Medicaid Faud

Inquiry into the FDA demanded, Medicaid cheats arrested, heart attacks more survivable and more from our Daily Briefing.

Complete Health Reporting: Don't Skip Harms When Covering Medical "Miracles"

Reporters sometimes treat medicine as if newer is always better. It's not. Here's how to accurately report on the potential harms of a new treatment.

The long arm of childhood: How chronic stress impacts Oakland teens in body and mind

To a teen living in the rough areas of East Oakland, sorrow is no stranger. Random violence, worry about the future and a constant battle for basics such as healthy food or good schools add up to a kind of life that can make an East Oakland teen far older than his or her chronological age.

Interpreting Health: Medical Translation in a City of Immigrants

One out of four New Yorkers doesn't speak or understand complex sentences in English. But at some point in their lives, every one of them will need to see a doctor. Language barriers can result in misdiagnoses, medication errors, and potentially fatal mistakes that are costly for both patients and providers. For this reason, hospitals in New York are required to provide "meaningful language access" to all patients. But in a city where more than 140 different languages are spoken, this is no easy task.

Obesity: Now, Blame the Bacteria

It would be nice to blame obesity on something other than overeating, underexercising and genetics. So the media is all over new research published in Science Express suggesting that the bacteria in our gut might play a role in appetite and weight gain.

Time magazine's Alice Park examines the study, writing that researchers:

"Let's Put Statins in the Water"

MedPage Today's Peggy Peck has a perfect lede on her story about an FDA advisory panel's recent decision on Crestor, a heart-protecting statin drug:

The joke in the world of heart disease is that "they should put statins in the water," but to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel that has recommended giving statins to "healthy" people, it's no joke.

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Covering Alternative Medicine

A "show-me-the-evidence" health journalist offers tips on covering alternative medicine without dismissing all of it out of hand.

William H. Fenical

William Fenical is a professor of oceanography at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and director of the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine at Scripps. His research involves the isolation and identification of active chemical materials from marine plants and animals that may have potential pharmaceutical or agricultural uses. His research involves marine organic chemistry with a focus on chemical defense mechanisms in marine organisms and the chemistry of marine microorganisms.

Jeffrey Harris

Dr. Jeffrey Harris is a professor of surgery and chief of the division of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at the UCSD School of Medicine. Harris is a neuro-otologic surgeon who deals with disorders of the ear, hearing and balance, and tumors that affect the skull base. He is also an expert in otosclerosis and the surgery to correct it. Since 1987, Harris has led the UCSD division of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, which is among the top group of NIH-funded programs for this specialty and has been listed as one of the best otolaryngology programs in the country by U.S.

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What makes your community healthy or unhealthy? Use our step-by-step data reporting guide to uncover untold stories!

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