Barbara Feder Ostrov

<p>I’m <a href="../../../../../../../../fellowships/projects/title-test-barbara-feder-ostrov">not a fan</a> of disease awareness weeks, days or months.

<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Whooping Cough:</strong> In the wake of California’s worst pertussis epidemic in 60 years, a new state law <a href="http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-whooping-cough-20101007,0,2683454.s… kids aged 12-17 to get vaccinated</a> for the disease before they enter school in 2011, reports Rong-Gong Lin II of the Los Angeles Times.</p>

<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>CPR:</strong> No need for mouth-to-mouth resuscitation during CPR? Just chest compressions? New research suggests <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487032985045755342305316166… approach might save more lives</a>, reports The Wall St. Journal’s Jennifer Corbett Dooren.</p>

<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Weight Loss:</strong> Can someone please explain why a weight-loss/sleep study with only 10 participants is <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&amp;cf=all&amp;topic=m&amp;ncl=dc… so much press</a>? Kudos to Foodconsumer.org’s Rachel Howell Stockton for highlighting <a href="http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/2/Obesity/sleep_quality_determines_… limitations of the study</a> while other media coverage hyperventilated.</p>

<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>ER Care:</strong> The New York Times’ Lizette Alvarez spends a week in a Brooklyn emergency room and comes back with a beautifully-written <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/nyregion/03emergency.html">distillati… of what she saw</a>. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Surgeon General Regina Benjamin got an earful today from participants in a conference call unveiling a high-level prevention council and strategy called for in the new health reform law.</p>

<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Health Reform:</strong> California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signs a number of bills to move along health reform in the state, including the nation’s first state legislation to create health insurance exchanges. Check out <a href="http://blog.health-access.org/2010/10/implementing-and-improving.html">… list of signed bills</a> at Health Access’ blog.</p>

<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>ADHD:</strong> Researchers find the first evidence that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is genetic, a finding that could lead to better treatment. Reuters’ Kate Kelland <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68S5UD20100930">has the story</a>.</p>

<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Sabotage:</strong> Science noir, indeed: Nature’s Brian Maher reports on <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100929/full/467516a.html">a jaw-dropping case of medical research sabotage</a> at the University of Michigan.</p>

<p>The “medical home” is one of those elements of health reform that seems like a classic DBI story: dull but important. It doesn't have to be.</p> <p>In this post, I’ll talk about what medical homes are, why is everyone talking about them in the context of health reform and how can you cover this topic in your community in a compelling way.</p>