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The San Diego Business Journal, Bismarck Tribune and the New Hampshire Public Radio are looking for health reporters to join their teams. Recent journalism grads should check out The Wall Street Journal's opening for a fall internship covering science and health care.

Awareness of just how damaging toxic stress and childhood adversity can be for a child's health and life prospects is growing. While leading experts call for bold new treatments, what approaches are already showing promise in reversing the effects on young bodies and minds?

A death notice in The New York Times last week caught the eye of one of my colleagues, who circulated it around the office. It was for an emerita professor of psychology at Cornell who committed suicide after receiving an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Are there more such death notices to come?

Hospitals may not always see complaints as signs of support. But when a hospital has problems, it can only get better if the community within and around it helps it get better. None of that can happen when the community is kept in the dark.

At the EAT Stockholm Food Forum, speakers took on junk food and suggested the debate between freedom and regulation is a false one. But attempts to regulate food have backfired. Some argue politicians now must persuade people that the freedom to eat bad food is no freedom at all.

New research has found that bullies had better health profiles than those not involved in bullying at all, while victims displayed less healthy blood readings over time. The study adds to a growing body of knowledge on how adversity and stress become embedded in our bodies and shape health.

A May report found a modest increase in Medi-Cal spending could give about 700,000 undocumented Californians access to care. Meanwhile, in the Salinas Valley, some say an employer-sponsored trust could provide essential care to farmworkers.

Last chance to apply for the Equal Voice Journalism Fellowships and Scholarship at The Journalism Center on Children & Families.

An extended response to DJ Jaffe's post, titled "8 Myths About Serious Mental Illness."

Children's Hospital New Orleans failed to disclose a serious pattern of fungal infections. That's a shame, as anything that adds to the suffering of patients should be promptly explained. It would've also let parents of the children know they weren't alone during a difficult time.