Insights

<p>Senior day centers jeopardized in California, lower life expectancies for some American women and most-wanted health fraud fugitives, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Journalists can learn a lot from Reuters Health's investigation into financial conflicts of interest in medical research. Here are some tips for your own reporting.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em></em></p>

<p>At what point will our planet become too darn hot? Scientists are now saying that if we don't do anything about curbing carbon emissions, temperatures in the next few decades could rise so high so fast that many regions of the Earth will become inhabitable.</p>

<p>Montel Williams opens a medical marijuana clinic in Sacramento, Louisville's bid to prevent obesity and new sunscreen guidelines plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>On the front lines of caring for the poor, one doctor examines how proposed deep cuts to Medicaid could hurt his patients.</p>

<p>Between March and May, I had several moments of panic about whether I was going to be able to complete the last two of the three stories I promised for the fellowship.There's a sense of relief when the editing is done and the designers are putting it on the page and I go home to try and take my mind off the story. That usually doesn't work and I ended up laying in bed worrying about typos, whether names are spelled correctly or huge inaccuracies because I've completely misunderstood the story (that has never happened, but I still worry nonetheless) and that I'm a fraud of a journalist. The real sigh of relief comes the next day when I'm thinking about the next story.</p>

<p>A massive U.S. study of children's health gets underwway, cockroaches and asthma, ambulance diversions and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Texas sheriff Robert Roberts and doctor Rolando Arafiles, accused of intimidating whistleblower nurses, get their day in court - while Arafiles has found another hospital job despite the controversy.</p>

<p>How far are we from personal genome scans that yield long lists of risks, some meaningful, some not? Who will develop the criteria for what is meaningful, for what a patient should know?</p>

<p>The long-awaited Federal Communications Commission report on American journalism, Information Needs of Communities, paints a poignant picture of the decline of health journalism at the nation’s newspapers.</p>