Insights

<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>

<p>The recent guilty plea of a broker of illegal human organs sheds new light on international organ trafficking — and on the gray market trade in body parts that's still happening right here in the United States.</p>

<p>California has been in the forefront of the move to implement the Obama Administration's new health care reform legislation. But the state is also in the midst of a terrible budget crisis, and is trying to cut already low Medicaid rates even lower. &nbsp;"If this is supposed to be the bellwether state for health reform," asks Noam Levey, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, "what does it say for everyone else?"</p>

<p>Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Charles Ornstein of ProPublica offers tips on finding just the right patient anecdotes to transform your reporting into compelling stories, and how to avoid embarrassing mistakes.</p>