Insights

<p>In one year, 477 people in San Francisco, most of them homeless, used $20 million worth of urgent/emergency services — an average of $42,067 each — and taxpayers paid the bill. Knowing who they are is the first step towards treating their illnesses, injuries, and addictions.</p>

<p>Budget cuts to senior day care programs means many will be forced into expensive nursing homes. Plus more from our Daily Briefing</p>

<p>The new filing by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/shadow-practice-update-doctor-who-sold-prescribing-license-cheap-finally-pays-price">against Dr. Scott Bickman</a> for his role in a California painkiller mill reveals a very sad truth. Maria Garcia’s death could almost certainly have been avoided.</p>

<p>Susan Mernit and Staci Baird, social media gurus, had a message for reformed journalists and New Media entrepreneurs participating in our pilot program melding online community engagement and health journalism: "We come in peace."</p>

<p>The first class of Online Health Journalism Fellows share three days of discussion about health, data and what happens when you combine great stories with online community engagement.</p>

<p>When gangbangers aren't your biggest worry, you've got real problems</p>

<p>Catching a glimpse of the future of professional community journalism, I'm excited by what I see</p>

<p>In California’s agricultural Central Valley, clean water is surprisingly hard to come by, and expensive, for some of the region’s poorest residents. It’s not hard to make the connection between poor health and water that has been tainted by nitrates from agricultural runoff.</p>

<p>War zones, weddings, and a healthy dose of quackery to end the week in the <em>Daily Briefing</em>.</p>

<p>A Pulitzer Prize winner talks about her career, her editors and how she got her first break. Also find the latest health media opportunities, this week in <em>Career GPS</em>.</p>