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<p>A moving examination of how doctors choose to die, a big-money Prempro lawsuit, and FDA scrutiny of the HCG diet, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Medicare is taking steps to make its database public to health insurers and other groups. Why aren't journalists included?</p>

<p>See this collection of primers, backgrounders, and links to help journalists and consumers do a better job evaluating evidence, medical studies, and claims about health care interventions.</p>

<p>Meeting other independent, hyperlocal website operators like myself was hands-down, one of the best things that came out of the fellowship.</p>

<p>One of the things on my agenda for October 20 was getting to an appointment on time. The other was going to the Los Angeles Sports Arena to see how the CareNowUSA.org free health clinic was progressing and what the faces of those being served. But at 5 PM, I was on a bus and trying to get home. I

<p>Bedbugs vs. humans, flabby school children, and cutbacks in lead poisoning prevention money, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>A cursory look at a difficult case leads to a disappointing outcome</p>

<p>If the consequences for pharma-sponsored ghostwriting are steep – lawsuits, public embarrassment, retractions – the temptations are also very real. A former ghostwriter weighs in and offers some solutions.&nbsp;</p>

<p>A recent Detroit Free Press column illustrates what happens when you cut mental health services in a community: jails become the new mental hospitals. Unsurprisingly, they’re not very good ones.</p>

<p>Reclassifying marijuana as a medicine, news on health disparities and a surprising link between pregnancy and heart disease, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>