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<p><a href="http://www.reviewjournal.com/db/doctorreview.detail?id=1078">Dr. Algis Martell</a> found a unique solution to the abortion debate.</p> <p>According to the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners, he performed abortions on women who were never pregnant and, when they were pregnant, he said he was performing an abortion but did not.</p>

<p>Could regular use of ibuprofen help prevent Parkinson's disease? Answers and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>With escalating obesity rates and growing interest in “buying local,” it’s a prime moment for health reporters to shine a light on how local government leaders can build momentum for a strategy many communities have long ignored.</p>

<p>Why is a Canadian hospital going public with details of its care of a dying baby? Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>With unions in urgent need of new blood, why wouldn’t they want to reach out to the 500 eager job-seekers at this fair? Conversely, what did these 500 job-seekers have against pipefitting?</p>

<p>Health reporters got an unusual amount of mileage out of a study that said that its chief finding was “of unknown clinical significance.” And when these same reporters put on their blogging hats, they went off-road entirely.</p>

<p>President Obama’s support for a bill <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/us/politics/01health.html?scp=4&amp;s… would let states opt out of national health reform mandates</a> early to come up with their own plans has been described variously as <a href="http://blogs.ajc.com/jamie-dupree-washington-insider/2011/03/01/health-…;“a bomb,”</a> a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR20110…;“major concession”</a> to reform’s critics, or <a href="http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/02/obama-calls-republican-health…;“calling the Republicans’ bluff.” </a>&nbsp;</p><p>But is it any single one of these things? Not so much. Here’s some context and a look at some analysis of Obama’s highly-publicized support for the <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/11/have_scott_brown_an… state waiver bill</a>, which he announced to the nation’s state governors on Monday.</p>

<p>Why do two Central California cities top a new "most toxic" cities list? Plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Taking root in Wisconsin, the union battles that are sweeping across the Midwest are about more than pay, benefits and collective bargaining. Attacks on the rights of workers are also an attack on America’s health.</p>

<p>My fellowship project entitled "Combating Diabetes"was published on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011, in The Record, the daily that serves San Joaquin County. The following Saturday, 330 people showed up for the county's first ever Community Diabetes Summit. The full project was cut out of the newspaper, put on a poster board and posted at the front door of the hotel ballroom where the summit was held. Speakers throughout the daylong summit referred to the project numerous times, even quoting directly from it.</p>