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<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Avandia:</strong> Fortune’s Shelly Dubois analyzes why the FDA <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/24/news/companies/FDA_Avandia_GSK_ban.fort…;“maimed” the diabetes drug Avandia</a> but didn’t permanently pull it off the market, as its European Union counterpart did. Quote of the day: “Avandia lives on in these United States as a zombie shell of its former top blockbuster self.”</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.patriciacornwell.com/">Patricia Cornwell</a>, take note: The Michigan Board of Medicine may have a treasure trove of story ideas for your crime novels.</p> <p>How does this sound for a book opener?</p> <p>A married patient leaves a new pair of expensive boots at a psychiatrist’s office with a note saying, “If you ever decide to ‘kick up your heels,’ I just hope you’ll do it with me.”</p> <p>Cut to the doctor’s office a few months later, heels and everything else tossed onto the floor while the two had sex.</p>

<p>Some of heath care reform's provisions went into effect today -- to acclaim and criticism, but mostly just explanation. Here's a rundown of coverage in the <em>ReportingonHealth</em> community.</p> <p><strong>8 changes, 7 caveats:</strong> <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/users/macwrite&quot;

<p>Amid the election-season clamor over health reform and some major insurers’ recent decision <a href="http://www.latimes.com/health/la-fi-kids-health-insurance-20100921,0,79… stop offering new child-only policies</a>, there are <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_16137343">substantial changes rolling out on September 23</a>.</p>

<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Birth Control:</strong> Now that the new “morning after” contraception pill known as <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/11/AR20100…; is on the market, will pharmacists dispense it? <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2010/09/will_pharmacists_fill_… may not</a>, according to the Washington Post’s The Checkup health blog.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The surgeons at Anaheim Hills Surgery Center had to be sweating.</p> <p>The Joint Commission, one of the most powerful arbiters of whether a health center is deemed worthy of federal funding, showed up at the surgery center’s doorstep in April 2008 to review its records, its practices and its sta

<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Kid Insurance:</strong> HHS chief Kathleen Sebelius may have called on states to get cracking on insuring more poor kids, but the states are responding: with what money? American Medical News <a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2010/09/20/gvl10920.htm">has the story</a>.</p>

<p>Earlier this month, <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/blogs/junk-food-and-hospitals">James Barone asked why hospitals serve vending machine snacks and unhealthy food</a>. An event in Los Angeles yesterday raised other basic questions about hospitals: Can a shift in thinking about hospital design actually improve health?</p>

<p>Here’s what we’re reading and listening to today:</p> <p><strong>Achoo:</strong> A small but intriguing new study suggests that a common cold virus is linked to childhood obesity. In San Diego, KPBS’ <a href="../../users/kennyg">Kenny Goldberg</a> has <a href="http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/sep/20/ucsd-study-suggest-link-between-co… story</a>.</p>