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<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p>
<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Alzheimer’s:</strong> The New Scientist Magazine offers a <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19193-briefing-new-ways-to-diagno… Q&A</a> on what the first new diagnostic guidelines in 25 years for Alzheimer’s disease could mean for doctors and patients – particularly when few new treatments are on the horizon.</p>
<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Fight the Bite:</strong> California reports its <a href="http://www.westnile.ca.gov/">first human West Nile virus cases of the season</a>, in what appears to be a late start to a mild West Nile season nationally. What’s happening in your community? For some resources and ideas for your coverage, check out this <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/blogs/summer-schools-session-covering-… Wonk post</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantry_crane">gantry cranes</a> at the Ports of <a href="http://www.portoflosangeles.org/">Los Angeles </a>and <a href="http://www.polb.com/">Long Beach</a> tower high above acres of stacked shipping containers – Hanjin, Matson, China Shipping – lined up along the harbor. These ports process 40 percent of container goods that arrive by ship in the United States; they directly or indirectly employ more than 120,000 people and generate billions of dollars in tax revenue each year.</p>
<p>Investigative journalist-turned-GIS expert <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ann-moss-joyner/4/817/415">Ann Moss Joyner</a> has made some pretty persuasive maps in her time. There was the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/ReportingonHealthorg/90860628845#!/photo…; showing how an Ohio community’s water plant just couldn’t seem to serve a historically black neighborhood just hundreds of feet away, even as the plant’s water lines snaked miles to other, white neighborhoods.
<p>Former health journalism Fellows Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman, colleagues at the Bay Area News Group, teamed up to write <a href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/life-expectancy">Shortened Lives</a>, a groundbreaking series on how where you live affects your health – and won a <a href="http://www.whca.net/2010windocs.htm">White House Correspondents’ Association award</a> for their efforts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.policylink.org/site/c.lkIXLbMNJrE/b.5137443/apps/s/content.a… Lee</a> knows firsthand the fallout from living in an area without proper access to fresh, healthy food: She drives past three South Los Angeles grocery stores offering expired tortillas and wilted
<p>"We're homogenizing the way the world goes mad," Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us," today told USC/California Endowment <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/seminars/national-health-j… Health Journalism Fellows</a> gathered in Los Angeles this week.</p>
<p>Some interesting new data over at Medicare’s <a href="http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/">Hospital Compare</a> database <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2010pres/07/20100707g.html">released Wed.</a> is worth mining for enterprise stories about how people receive treatments for heart attacks and other medical conditions at hospitals in your community.</p>
<p>Enough of LeBron James, already! Here’s our daily round-up of health news and resources for your work and enjoyment.</p> <p><strong>Gaga Eyes:</strong> So-called “circle lenses” that make your eyes look manga-huge are gaining a following among women channeling their own Lady Gaga. But these over-the-counter, unregulated contact lenses pose <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-07-08-lady-gaga-contacts_N.htm… health risk</a>, reports USA Today, following <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/fashion/04lenses.html">a recent story in the New York Times</a>.</p>