Insights

<p>Contrary to popular belief, resilience is not innate. If you stress a child long enough and don't provide any nurturing to recover from the stress, research shows that the effects are damaging and long-term.</p>

<p>A couple of articles in today's USA Today identify a growing - and seemingly controversial - trend at US hospitals: standardizing approaches to clinical care delivery in order to reduce costs.</p>

<p>What the Scoville scale has to do with the Occupy movement, Anthem's alleged "bait and switch," healthier food banks and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>The recent guilty plea of a broker of illegal human organs sheds new light on international organ trafficking — and on the gray market trade in body parts that's still happening right here in the United States.</p>

<p>California has been in the forefront of the move to implement the Obama Administration's new health care reform legislation. But the state is also in the midst of a terrible budget crisis, and is trying to cut already low Medicaid rates even lower. &nbsp;"If this is supposed to be the bellwether state for health reform," asks Noam Levey, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, "what does it say for everyone else?"</p>

<p>Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Charles Ornstein of ProPublica offers tips on finding just the right patient anecdotes to transform your reporting into compelling stories, and how to avoid embarrassing mistakes.</p>

<p>A blockbuster drug's approval revoked, rising STD rates, and a politician's surprising views on asthma, plus more from our Daily Briefing. <strong></strong></p>

<p>Michael J. Berens,investigative reporter at <em>The Seattle Times</em>, spent 20 months working on the "Seniors for Sale" series. Even if you don't have that kind of time, you can still do investigative work in small pieces, he told this year's California Health Journalism Fellows.</p>

<p>Take part in improving the quality of health care for people over 50 as a Senior Writer/Editor for UnitedHealth Group. Also see other job opportunities in various health topics.</p>

<p>Having the legal right to an abortion does not necessarily mean a woman has access to an abortion - even if there are more than 500 abortion providers in California.</p>