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<p>Did a federal task force ignore evidence that more frequent mammograms save lives? Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>A new poll shows that Americans are feeling more conflicted than ever about health reform. Plus more from our Daily Briefing!</p>

<p>Tonight the State of the Union Address will be delivered by President Obama. An interesting request has been made of the members of Congress (for both Senators and Assembly Representatives). It is that a member of each opposing party sit next to their opposite - to dare to cross the aisle and par

<p>One year after Dr. Andrew Rutland was accused of killing a woman while trying to perform an abortion, the troubled doctor with a long history of hurting patients has agreed to give up his license.</p>

<p>We're back from a weekend with the California Health Journalism Fellowship. Learn what they learned at <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/category/blog-category/-fellowships-bl… Fellowships Blog</a>. Find these resources and a conversation about the benefits and weaknesses of social media in health care.</p>

<p>For a field rooted in fact and reason, science sure loves witchcraft.</p> <p>One of the most common responses to the decade-long effort to hold Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues accountable for creating <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/wakefields-wake-part-1-media-should-help-undo-damage-vaccine-autism-hoax">one of the biggest public health scares</a> in modern history – linking autism to the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine – is to call the effort a “witch hunt.”</p>

<p>So Mother Jones Editor Laura McClure put down the challenge: you don't have to like social media, just do it. Or something like that and flossing... OK, so, here I am again.. blogging.</p><p>At the opening Fellowship weekend in October I knew this was going to be a good experience. I didn't think USC and Michelle could top it, but they did. From a stop at an inner city clinic to the slum housing the poor are forced to live in we saw the inequity up close and personal.</p><p>And the fellows who are going through the Fellowship with me are just fantastic journalists, John included.</p>

<p><em><img src="/files/u47/Social%20Media%20Photo.jpg" width="311" height="200" style="float: left; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;" />“Social media is like flossing: you don’t have to like it, you just have to do it, every day.” </em></p>

<p>When we think about how to get eyeballs on our reporting these days, we talk a lot about Twitter and Facebook and online branding.&nbsp;Tracy Weber, senior reporter at ProPublica, took California Health Journalism Fellows back to the basics of getting and keeping readers: great writing.</p>