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<p>Dr. Rishi Manchanda wants to practice smart medicine. From a clinic in South Los Angeles, he told the California Health Journalism Fellows, "It is not smart to take a cockroach out of an ear and just send that child home," Manchanda says.</p>

<p>This may be the biggest children’s study you’ve barely heard of: a massive, $2.7 billion examination of 100,000 American children’s health and development. Did I mention it’s supposed to last 25 years?</p>

<p>You might think that spending ten years on the street, two of them at 6th and Mission, might mean that a person is a hopeless case.&nbsp;If you're thinking that way, even secretly in your mind, as you pass people huddled under urine-soaked gray-felted blankets, then now's the time for you to meet

<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Epigenetics is now the hottest thing in biosciences.”&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">&nbsp;</span></p>

<p>Mental health professionals say that journalists need to get informed and be open to talking about how their work affects their mental health. This week at&nbsp;<em>Career GPS</em>, we get that conversation going.</p>

<p>We end the week here at the <em>Daily Briefing</em>&nbsp;with new takes on big stories.</p>

<p>One of the main groups involved in Andrew Wakefield’s vaccines-cause-autism scare was <a href="http://www.jabs.org.uk/">called JABS</a>.</p> <p>The letters stood for Justice Awareness and Basic Support. It billed itself as the “support group for vaccine-damaged children.” A jab, in British parlance, is the same as a shot in the US. And the group was focused on jabs from vaccines as the cause of autism and other disorders.</p>

<p>Just when you thought you had gotten a handle on <a href="http://www.genome.gov/18016863">genomics</a&gt;, here’s an emerging branch of bioscience that should be on your radar screen: <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/plus/sfg/resources/res_epigeneti…;

<p>Forty states get an "F" for their tobacco prevention programs, plus more from today's Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Could a new Cochrane review slow the trend toward prescribing statins for nearly everyone to prevent heart disease? Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.</p>