Insights

<p>Whooping cough is still a major concern for California kids, tainted tomatoes are recalled, and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>A regional reporter investigates a health insurer's repeated denials of diagnostic tests — and triggers a federal investigation. William Heisel interviews Jonathan Starkey of the Wilmington News Journal.</p>

<p>Why are U.S. asthma rates going up when pollution and smoking are on their way down? Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>In one year, 477 people in San Francisco, most of them homeless, used $20 million worth of urgent/emergency services — an average of $42,067 each — and taxpayers paid the bill. Knowing who they are is the first step towards treating their illnesses, injuries, and addictions.</p>

<p>Budget cuts to senior day care programs means many will be forced into expensive nursing homes. Plus more from our Daily Briefing</p>

<p>The new filing by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/shadow-practice-update-doctor-who-sold-prescribing-license-cheap-finally-pays-price">against Dr. Scott Bickman</a> for his role in a California painkiller mill reveals a very sad truth. Maria Garcia’s death could almost certainly have been avoided.</p>

<p>Susan Mernit and Staci Baird, social media gurus, had a message for reformed journalists and New Media entrepreneurs participating in our pilot program melding online community engagement and health journalism: "We come in peace."</p>

<p>The first class of Online Health Journalism Fellows share three days of discussion about health, data and what happens when you combine great stories with online community engagement.</p>

<p>When gangbangers aren't your biggest worry, you've got real problems</p>

<p>Catching a glimpse of the future of professional community journalism, I'm excited by what I see</p>