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<p>A journalist examines the state of health in his home town of Gary, Ind. and finds that his coverage sparks community-wide conversation and change.</p>

<p>As public safety-net hospitals start to prepare for health reform, they'll need to help their patients find their way in a far different, and likely politically noisy, health care landscape. Here are some questions you should be asking now.</p>

<p>Melatonin brownies, measles on the rise worldwide, and nursing homes that don't want to insurer their employees, plus more in our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Documents behind a controversial Seroquel drug trial raise serious questions about how patients with mental disorders are judged competent to participate in clinical trials all over the world.</p>

<p>Seeking a ban on methyl iodide in strawberry fields, privatizing Medicare, and questions about CNN's Sanjay Gupta, plus more from our Daily Briefing. <strong></strong></p>

<p>If social media increases site traffic and often leads to interesting stories and new sources for journalists, why wouldn't news organizations engage or want their reporters to engage on Facebook? This week at <em>Career GPS</em>, we explore the question of Facebook for journalists. Also find the

<p>Antidote’s series on whether wearing hospital scrubs in public places like restaurants leads to more infections is on the cusp of generating some meaningful change in the way health care organizations address scrubs and other potential disease carriers.</p>

<p>Reaching poor people with dental care means unraveling so many other things, including the isolation, difficult living conditions, fear and other burdens of poverty.</p>

<p>Supermarket design and obesity, Mitt Romney walks the healthcare tightrope, and a promising HIV/AIDS study, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Do you want to better report on drug addiction and treatment? Avoid having Slate’s Jack Shafer feature your work in his Stupid Drug Story of the Week feature? Then follow these 15 tips from veteran journalist Maia Szalavitz.</p>