Insights

<p>Two stories about dentists published this month offer a revealing glimpse of the ongoing struggle of many Americans to access much-needed health care amid the economic downturn — and some ideas for your own reporting.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Social media for bone marrow transplants, X-rays don't prevent lung cancer deaths, and a health reform plea for the Supremes, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Wonder what happened with the National Practitioner Data Bank, the cell phone-cancer link and Lap-Band surgery shenanigans? Find out in these updates.</p>

<p>HPV vaccine for boys, hallucinogens and personality, and the link between coffee and skin cancer, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>FDA regulator Paul T. Hardy blew the whistle on problems with a Kodak mammography system — and got fired for his trouble. Here's what happened next.</p>

<p>Is your community offering a medical respite program for homeless people being released from local hospitals? Journalist Isabelle Walker's coverage offers a compelling road map.</p>

<p>A Lap-Band lawsuit gets uglier, what Nixon's HMOs have to do with Obama's ACOs, diabetes and where you live, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Broadcast, print and online media professionals are wanted to cover health beats and manage health-related programs nationwide this week.</p>

<p>At the first meeting of my fellow fellows, we were asked a simple question, "do you consider yourself a journalist?" My answer at the time was, "no." My answer today would be different.</p>

<p>If it is hard to make a good career in news, it's even harder to make a well-paying career in broadcast television news. KABC-TV health reporter Denise Dador and medical producer Julia Seifer told CCNMA conference-goers that it takes persistence and passion to make it.</p>