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<p>Medical malpractice cases can live or die on the testimony of an expert witness. Defense<br /> attorneys will go after the expert's credentials with every tool in their kit.</p> <p>One would think that plaintiff's attorneys suing the federal government on behalf of a<br /> patient would make sure they had a doctor with impeccable experience ready to take the stand and bolster the patient's case.</p> <p>Instead, they hired Dr. Alex T. Zakharia.</p>

<p>How are California's community health clinics faring amid the state's most brutal health budget cuts in decades? That's one topic that's seen little coverage recently as journalists focus on national health reform. </p>

<p>"It is not often that you are aware of the revolution right while you are in the midst of it. But we are," says <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16616870">Alicia C. Shepard</a>, ombudsman at National Public Radio. And with those changes come a host of challenges for journalists working in a fast-changing climate, she recently told a group of broadcasters participating in <a href="/fellowships">The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships</a>.</p>

<p>Johnson &amp; Johnson — maker of <a href="http://johnsonsbaby.com/product.do?id=47">tearless baby shampoo</a> and <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2005/tc2005022_7832_t… sugar</a> — has devised another innovation: the time-traveling scientist.</p><p>This may sound astonishing, true believers, but read on!</p>

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<p>Howard I read your article "MSM fact-checking of Sarah Palin." Let's be honest about this entire exercise of 'Examining' Sarah Palin, and that is what many in the MSM are attempting to do here. If Sarah Palin had written the words "Complete Lives System" on her Facebook page in place of the "Death Panels", Sarah Palin would not be part of the healthcare debate. If the MSM didn't think they had a "GOTCHA" story on her they would not have acted, to my knowledge, in a unprecedented manner reaching out to a Facebook page to make National News.

<p><a href="/users/shimmel">Sheila Himmel</a>, an award-winning food writer and restaurant reviewer for the San Jose Mercury News, loved to eat. Then her daughter became anorexic, forever changing Himmel's relationship with food and her identity as a journalist. In <a href="http://sheilahimmel.com/book.shtml">Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia</a>, Himmel and her daughter Lisa examine how their family coped with Lisa's serious eating disorder.</p>

<p>Let's assume that Dr. Conrad Murray did not kill Michael Jackson.</p>

<p>The worldwide diabetes epidemic <a href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/352/11/1138">threatens</a&gt; to make today's children the first generation to live shorter lives than their parents. </p>