Insights

<p>This week, various medical centers and health organizations are recruiting dynamic professionals to manage their health communication services and programs.</p>

<p>Today's news roundup features the good and the bad in the fight against AIDS, health questions about food in cans, and a book for your long weekend. The <em>Daily Briefing</em> will go offline until Monday, so we sign off with some (health-related) Thanksgiving reads.</p>

<p>Chris Seper is looking for an editor for MedCity News and while he's not looking for a social media expert, he does want someone who understands search and writing for the web. This week in <em>Career GPS</em>, he answers questions about the position.</p>

<p>Food writer Karen Coates guest-blogs on how we can move beyond blaming fast food for obesity to a more sophisticated understanding of how to prevent it.</p>

<p>The Watts Healthy Farmers Market is challenged by more than just poverty. Safety and changing demographics make it difficult to reach large pockets of the community, say organizers.</p>

<p>Today's <em>Daily Briefing</em> features reporters' struggles to access health information, the health of truck drivers and women who have just given birth, and a must-read about what it means to die in prison.</p>

<p>The Congressional supercommittee's failure to reach a deal could spell even harder times for health providers and agencies, from hospitals to AIDS treatment programs to doctors who treat Medicare patients. Here's a roundup of the analysis.</p>

<p>Contrary to popular belief, resilience is not innate. If you stress a child long enough and don't provide any nurturing to recover from the stress, research shows that the effects are damaging and long-term.</p>

<p>A couple of articles in today's USA Today identify a growing - and seemingly controversial - trend at US hospitals: standardizing approaches to clinical care delivery in order to reduce costs.</p>

<p>What the Scoville scale has to do with the Occupy movement, Anthem's alleged "bait and switch," healthier food banks and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>