Insights

<p>Today's <em>Daily Briefing</em> has stories that link health to wealth and vice versa, an interactive on consumers' health spending and a lesson from the end of the long-term health insurance program CLASS.</p>

<p>With the right data and good contacts to point you to personal stories, you can find where people are having trouble receiving medical care and tell an important story.</p>

<p>How did St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Nancy Cambria report her groundbreaking — and heartbreaking — series on child deaths in day care without falling apart emotionally?</p>

<p>As investigators finally trace a deadly listeria outbreak to melons from a Colorado packing shed, food safety expert Douglas Powell offers timely advice on covering food safety issues.</p>

<p>A huge rise in antidepressant use, a bad report card for American health system, and a boost for the Pap smear in today's Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Deborah Schoch timed her two-part series, "Fault Lines," which looks at hospitals and seismic safety, to coincide with the Great California Shakeout, a day dedicated to earthquake preparedness. Here are her tips for reporting on earthquake safety at hospitals in your community.</p>

<p>Corporate pressure for pesticide use, rising ER visits, and easing the high cost of health care in Massachusetts, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Heavy marketing of breast cancer awareness, Calif. doctor lobby approves legalizing pot, the death of CLASS and more from our Daily Briefing.&nbsp;</p>

<p><em></em>When St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Nancy Cambria started reporting on a child who died at a home day care in Missouri, she turned what could have been a tragic but isolated event into a can’t-put-it-down series. Here are five useful reporting tips from her work.</p>

<p>The CDC has released its "season opener" flu surveillance report and the good news is that there could be record-setting supplies of flu vaccine in the U.S. Here are some tips for reporting on the 2011-2012 flu season.</p>