Barbara Feder Ostrov

<p>The latest on a national salmonella outbreak, rising Medicare and Medicaid costs and good news for some Californians with expensive health insurance, plus more in our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Journalist Emily Ramshaw gives the backstory on how she reported her ground-breaking series on Texas' colonias, impovershed neighborhoods that remain without running water, paved roads or electricity after decades of neglect.</p>

<p>The debt debate's impact on healthcare providers, junk food wastelands, Russia's surprising health move and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Get great story ideas for covering health reform's rollout in your state from journalist Sarah Kliff.</p>

<p>Learning about gangs, race and violence may not seem like a traditional part of the health beat. Yet the concept of violence as a significant public health threat has been around for more than three decades.</p>

<p>Urban planning, land use and redevelopment traditionally haven’t been hot topics on the health beat. <a href="http://www.phlpnet.org/php/staff/ogilvie-phd">Robert Ogilvie</a> thinks they should be.</p>

<p>You can lead the people to fresh produce and other healthy food, but you can’t make them eat it: perspectives from a diabetes specialist and a journalist.</p>

<p>Angela Glover Blackwell of PolicyLink shares ideas and reporting tips for covering the links between your health and where you live.</p>

<p>A vaccine success story, making money of Medicare patients, cholera on the rise in Haiti and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Teens are taking birth control pills younger than ever, the impact of a national debt default on Medicare and Medicaid, salmonella-carrying frogs and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>