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A Renewed Focus on Alzheimer's Dementia

Pills prices, agricultural antibiotics, Medicare politics, fracking and more from our Daily Briefing.

How We Do Harm: Otis Brawley's new book skewers 'gluttony' of over-diagnosis, medical treatment

In his eye-opening new book, Dr. Otis Brawley takes aim at doctors who prescribe too much, drug companies who promise too much, and the system that rewards them both with hefty incomes and sales.

Diabetic mother delivers healthy 9-pound, 12-ounce girl

Candida King Bird, 38, the diabetic pregnant mother featured in The Oregonian earlier this month, delivered a healthy 9-pound, 12-ounce girl on Thursday.

The "Health Insurance Tax": How an anti-tax HIT squad employs the press

A small business lobbyist explains how her group's campaign to kill a new "health insurance tax" relies on journalists: "We’re pitching things and hope people run it. We’re not paying for ads."

Daily Briefing: Cleaning Up Arsenic-Tainted Water in a Rural Calif. Town

Water woes persist in a rural town, an international push for universal health care, and unwelcome health cuts in California's revised budget, plus more from our Daily Briefing.

Revised Recommendations for Vaccines are Being Phased In, CDC Report Says

Can vaccines be more useful for some people than for others?

Journalists Bag a Big One: The American Pain Foundation

The American Pain Foundation – an industry-funded promoter of painkillers - closed its doors last week amid a federal inquiry. Here's how some top-notch journalists helped make it happen.

Why Michele Simon is Not Attending or Watching "Weight of the Nation"

Why focusing on obesity is a gift for the food industry.

Food for Thought: Why Moving the Needle on Child Obesity is So Hard

Why the childhood obesity prevention movement is still struggling.

Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development: In conversation about health

I've been covering conversations about the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development with a particular interest in efforts to add health to instiutional framework. 

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