Flu shot slackers, foreclosure-itis and kids who should be (but aren’t) insured: The ReportingonHealth Daily Briefing

Foreclosures: Heart palpitations, insomnia, acid reflux: foreclosures can make you sick, according to a new report covered by the San Francisco's Victoria Colliver.

Flawed Polls: Political science professor Terry Jones examines flaws in media coverage of health care polls in the St. Louis Journalism Review.  

Kids Health: An estimated five million uninsured children in the United States were eligible for Medicaid or SCHIP programs but didn't enroll, Reuters reports. Could that be because states have tightened renewal requirements and cut back on their outreach and enrollment budgets?

Flu Shots: Nearly half of California hospital workers didn't (!) get flu shots during the 2008-2009 flu season, according to public records obtained by Consumer Reports (California health officials dispute the finding). Dan Weintraub at HealthyCal.org has the story. Kudos to CR for filing a public records request for this data, something other health journalists should be doing on a regular basis.

Breast Cancer: An ABC News affiliate reports on a Central California kerfuffle over allegedly explicit (but actually pretty juvenile) "boobie bracelets" designed to raise awareness of breast cancer among teens. Who thought this one up?