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<p>The American Pain Foundation – an industry-funded promoter of painkillers - closed its doors last week amid a federal inquiry. Here's how some top-notch journalists helped make it happen.</p>

<p>Why focusing on obesity is a gift for the food industry.</p>

<p>Why the childhood obesity prevention movement is still struggling.</p>

<p>I've been covering conversations about the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development with a particular interest in efforts to add health to instiutional framework.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Social Jet Lag, HIV-prevention and Weight-Loss pills, Health Insurance Exchange, Skin Cancer and Dialysis Patients.&nbsp;</p>

<p>What's an 87-year-old doctor to do when he's banned from performing surgery but still allowed to practice medicine? Prescribe medical marijuana in a dubious clinic.</p>

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<p>At this month's AHCJ convention, blogger Sonya Collins tells us "speaker after speaker reminded us that we medical journalists shouldn’t lead with the numbers that quantify the reach of a disease or its cost to taxpayers.&nbsp; We should lead with the face of someone who lives with that condition. Show our readers that she’s just like them."</p><p>She goes on to give a wonderful example of how stigma can be reduced through good storytelling.</p><p>But what if the stigma begins in part with journalists?</p>

<p>Meaning as medicine, infant formula, Medicare fraud, osteoporosis and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>A high-level painkiller probe, why the GOP is targeting Medicare in an election year, the military's massive free health clinic in Alabama and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>