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<p>The Future of Music Coalition conducted a survey in 2010 showing that 33 percent of musicians responding had no health insurance. It's a problem that resonates with freelance journalists or those who do not receive health benefits from their employers. Broader concerns about health access in the

<p>Japan's radiation may have reached California shores, but experts say your health won't be affected. Plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>The biggest finding in <a href="http://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-07-09-00110.pdf">a new report</a> about the criminal histories of nursing home workers is that the Office of Inspector General can’t say whether seniors and people with disabilities truly are in danger.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Is your drugstore selling your prescription information to the pharma industry? Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Despite reassurances from public health officials that, for now, radioactive fallout from Japan’s worsening nuclear crisis <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/science/17plume.html?_r=1&amp;hp">will have a negligible impact on U.S. shores</a>, Americans nevertheless are making <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014505732_quakepills… ill-considered run on the potassium iodide pills</a> that can prevent radiation-related thyroid cancers.</p>

<p>Matthew Crawford wants to be a police officer. Terrell Williams works two jobs and goes to college. Claude Eakins works as an advocate helping young people in the foster care system. They all have two things in common: they, too, were once in the foster care system and they believe media reports

<p>How safe are California hospitals in the event of a major earthquake? Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Are nursing home workers with criminal records really endangering residents? It's hard to tell from a new inspector general's report.</p>

<p>As you may have learned about through DiabetesMine today, the Diabetes Hands Foundation (the nonprofit responsible for TuDiabetes, EsTuDiabetes and diabetes awareness programs such as Big Blue Test, No-Sugar Added Poetry and Word In Your Hand) has received a capacity building grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.&nbsp;We wanted to share this great news with the RoH community!</p>

<p>Radiation from Japan's emerging nuclear crisis isn't likely to reach the West Coast, experts say. Plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>