Barbara Feder Ostrov

<p>The Congressional supercommittee's failure to reach a deal could spell even harder times for health providers and agencies, from hospitals to AIDS treatment programs to doctors who treat Medicare patients. Here's a roundup of the analysis.</p>

<p>What the Scoville scale has to do with the Occupy movement, Anthem's alleged "bait and switch," healthier food banks and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>A blockbuster drug's approval revoked, rising STD rates, and a politician's surprising views on asthma, plus more from our Daily Briefing. <strong></strong></p>

<p>As Occupy Wall Street protesters continue to clash with police in New York and elsewhere around the nation, a quieter Occupy Healthcare movement is burgeoning online in websites, blogs and Twitter chats. Here’s a closer look at this virtual protest.</p>

<p>Rising insurance costs for smokers, falling birth rates for teens, and hard times ahead for rural hospitals, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>"Appetite for Profit" author Michele Simon unpacks what journalists got right — and wrong — about this week's school lunch nutritition controversy, and how to add more context to your reporting on the issue.</p>

<p>More Americans on anti-depressants and other behavioral drugs, lobbying for chemicals in California and good news for chunky kids, plus more in our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Tomato paste a "vegetable" in school lunches, high lead levels in New Orleans homes, and suing medical marijuana outlets, plus more from our Daily Briefing.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Supremes make health reform headlines today, kids and cholesterol, and the links between an industrial solvent and Parkinson's disease, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>After Walmart furiously backpedaled on a story about its ambitious plans to expand into basic health care, the journalists who got the scoop had some reporting to do. Here is what they learned.</p>