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<p>Here’s what we’re checking out today:</p> <p><strong>Health Reform:</strong> The Washington Post and Kaiser Health News <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/18/AR20101… fact-check election-season rhetoric about the impact of health reform</a>. </p>
<p>As the national conversation about gay teen suicide continues in the wake of <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/gay-teen-suicide-sparks-debate/story?id=117881… Clementi’s death</a>, it’s worth taking a moment to examine how the media covers suicide among people of any age and orientation – and how we can do better.</p>
<p>Here’s what we’re checking out today:</p> <p><strong>Octomom: </strong>This one’s a jaw-dropper. "Octomom” Nadya Suleman's fertility doctor, Michael Kamrava, endangered the mother of 14 by <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/health/7252316.html">implanting her with a dozen embryos</a> in the pregnancy that gave her octuplets, a state attorney charged at the doctor’s license hearing, the AP’s Shaya Tayefe Mohajer reports.</p>
<p>Here’s what we’re checking out today:</p> <p><strong>Care, Discounted:</strong> Doctors and other <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-10-11/health/bs-hs-groupon-and-he… care providers are glomming onto the Groupon craze</a>, Meredith Cohn reports in the Baltimore Sun. Guess that’s one way to reduce health care costs.</p>
<p><em>We have a guest post today from veteran health journalist <a href="http://www.newsu.org/about/instructors/karl-stark">Karl Stark</a>, health and science editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Karl really knows his way around hospital finance: his stories on a now-defunct health system triggered
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<p>Here’s what we’re checking out today:</p> <p><strong>Lead:</strong> The investigative news startup California Watch, not content to merely report on harmful lead levels in children’s jewelry, <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/10/now-thats-engagement-cal-watch-offers-… actually test suspect items for you</a>.</p>
<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Fraud Investigation:</strong> Investigators are <a href="http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-prime-healthcare-20101012,0,151733… a Southern California hospital chain’s suspiciously high level of serious infections</a> among older patients, according to a report by CaliforniaWatch’s Lance Williams and Christina Jewett. Could it be Medicare fraud?</p>
<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Obesity: </strong>The <a href="http://www.theheart.org/article/1133025.do?utm_source=twitterfeed&u… Craig diet might actually work long-term</a>, new research suggests.</p>
<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Health Reform:</strong> It’s official: a federal judge finally rules that the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/07/AR20101… health reform law is constitutional</a>. The ruling was hailed as a victory for the Obama administration because it’s the first to dismiss a constitutional challenge on its merits rather than a technicality. The Washington Post’s N.C. Aizenman has the story.</p>