Insights

<p>How one reporter covered community health issues facing two neighborhoods facing each other across a toxic river in the middle of the Superfund site.</p>

<p>Why do Mexican-American schoolchildren in California have seven times more flame retardant in their systems than their peers in Mexico? Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Homeless people who are discharged from acute care hospital to a step-down care center, or medical respite bed, are less likely to be readmitted in 90-days, according to an October, 2009 study in <em>The Journal of Prevention and Intervention in The Communit</em>y.</p>

<p>The charade perpetrated by William Hamman, the United Airlines pilot who had a second, lucrative <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/william-hamman-wisconsins-flying-fake-cardiologist-sailed-past-many-who-easily-could-have-caug">career as a fake cardiologist</a>, is starting to have consequences.</p>

<p>In Los Angeles, five communities were awarded money to encourage healthier lifestyles that include bicycling and walking. Have these grants improved public health? Damien Newton will investigate.</p>

<p>Redefining Alzheimer's disease could dramatically change the way this disease of aging is diagnosed, treated. Plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Every ER has patients like "Sam." The staff call them "frequent fliers" because they patch them up and discharge them, only to watch them return an hour or a day or a week later with another problem. &nbsp;How much should the health care system spend to help someone who won't help himself?&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Consumer genetic tests for kids, problem drinkers and hospital infections, staph bacteria in meat and budget problems ahead for community clinics: all in today's Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>My two articles (I was originally writing three, but ended up with two lengthy articles) for the Fellowship were definitely acquired through an illuminating process.</p><p>Over and over I encountered heads of medical institutions in the area who gave me their polished spin on why there weren't enough physicians in the area and why our huge Medi-Cal population wasn't being served. The two are intertwined as not having enough doctors/resources for the privately insured means that the physicians who DO live here will flock to the patients who pay. Which are not Medi-Cal patients.</p>

<p>Dr. David C. Martin may be onto something. In three Antidote posts last week, he made the case that health care workers should not wear surgical scrubs out in public. If seen doing so, they should be confronted. Now, doctors are talking back.&nbsp;</p>