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<p>A mad cow disease scare, smokers hiding from their dentists, and some heart screening tests you probably don't need, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>During my reporting on organ donation for my fellowship project, one source’s quote stood out. “I’m a living example that organ donation works,” Vicky Mai Nguyen told me. She’s a 26-year-old woman who’s in good health and thriving. Had it not been for a liver transplant, she likely would never have made it to 2.</p>

<p>Today's <em>Reporting on Health Daily Briefing</em> is keeping up with health care reform battles, grammar wars and hospitals' care for illegal immigrants.</p>

<p>When I wrote about the “Dieting Sucks” campaign two years ago, I predicted that similarly unscrupulous plastic surgeons would join the race to the bottom. They did.</p>

<p>Should pizza be restricted to "save us from ourselves?" Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>A surprising sodium culprit, good news for teens and antidepressants, a Catholic birth control controversy and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Everyone has a story about how they got the story, and sometimes the former is better than the latter. We’re hoping you’ll share yours for a new contest we’re sponsoring on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ReportingonHealth">Reporting on Health’s Facebook page</a>. The prize: a $50 <a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/">iTunes</a&gt; gift card.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>The recent <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/3686144-417/degrees-monday-service-expected-sno…; around the country reminded me that if you haven’t taken a look at what the current flu season is like in your community, it’s a good time to do so. I like how the Miami Herald’s Fred Tasker set the scene for the 2010-2011 in <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/28/v-fullstory/1845522/flu-season-st… Q&amp;A piece</a>.</p>

<p>Why is Disney invading hospital maternity wards? Plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>When Dow Jones &amp; Co., publisher of <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>, <a href="http://www.law360.com/topnews/articles/222184/dow-jones-seeks-to-shine-… it was suing</a> to gain access to information about individual providers in the Medicare claims database, investigative reporters everywhere started salivating.</p>