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<p>Here's what we're reading and listening to today:</p> <p><strong>Nutrition:</strong> <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/29/2985813/dine-out-nutrition-facts-in-yo… don’t need no stinkin’ nutrition facts</a>. Just let me eat my 845-calorie taco salad in peace, okay?</p>
<p>Here's what we're reading and listening to today:</p> <p><strong>Prison Health:</strong> In our <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/reporting-prison-health-care-live-chat-kpccs-julie-small">online chat TODAY at 11 a.m. PST</a>., get tips on covering prison health from KPCC’s Julie Small, whose <a href="http://www.scpr.org/specials/prisonmedical/">“Prison Affliction” investigation</a> has been airing this week.</p>
<p><!--[endif]--></p> <p>Here's what we're reading and listening to today:</p> <p><strong>Prison Health:</strong> KPCC‘s Julie Small talks <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/qa-kpccs-julie-small-investigating-prison-health-care">about how she reported her “Prison Affliction”</a> series airing this week. Please join us for ReportingonHealth’s <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/reporting-prison-health-care-live-chat-kpccs-julie-small">online chat with Julie</a> Thursday at 11 a.m. PST.</p>
<p>Prison health care in California costs about $2.5 billion per year, but the quality of that care has been so abysmal over the years that a federal judge in 2002 forced California to give up control of its prison health services to <a href="http://www.cphcs.ca.gov/">a federal receiver</a>. Eight y
<p>Here’s what we’re reading and listening to today:</p> <p><strong>Healthy Places:</strong> Los Angeles is using some of its stimulus money <a href="http://www.healthycal.org/local-grants-will-aim-to-transform-communitie… make low-income neighborhoods healthier places to live</a> by improving parks, creating community gardens and improving school lunches among other projects, reports Megan Baier, a correspondent for <a href="http://www.healthycal.org/local-grants-will-aim-to-transform-communitie… California</a>.</p>
<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Hospital Bribery?</strong> A California man has <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487044761045754399937903814… charged with bribery</a> for trying to entice a hospital employee to accept would-be doctors into hard-to-get medical residency slots, according to a story in The Wall St. Journal. He allegedly paid the employee $15,000 as incentive. His lawyer calls him a “very generous guy.”</p>
<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p>
<p>Here’s what we’re reading and watching today:</p> <p><strong>Telemedicine:</strong> Lots of press coverage of the launch of California’s Telehealth Network, in which 50 clinics and hospitals will join a broadband network to provide medical care to people in remote areas. Organizers eventually hope to link up to 900 health care providers by the end of next year. Check out the <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/18/2965958/health-care-takes-digital-leap… Bee’s coverage</a>.</p>
<p>Here’s what we’re reading (and watching) today:</p>
<p>Science blogging vs. science journalism: Isn’t this debate <a href="http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/01/21/berk_es… yet</a>? Apparently not. Canadian journalist Colin Schultz <a href="http://colinschultz.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/science-bloggers-diversify… to a new study</a> by two Northwestern doctoral students suggesting that science bloggers rely on more diverse sources than political bloggers or traditional science journalists.</p> <p>Schultz writes:</p>