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<p>When Esther Gress walks down the aisles at the grocery or drug store, she surveys the wall of cleaning products critically: disinfectant sprays, bottles of bleach, the all-purpose stuff. The 34-year-old, who has cleaned homes for a living for the past five years, used to use toxic chemicals on the job. Now, she bypasses these products for cleaners she mixes up herself.</p>

<p>2007 Fellow Daisy Lin's big picture look at health care crisis in an election year was nominated for a Los Angeles Emmy.</p>

<p>Several universities throughout California have received sizeable grants for extensive study of stem cells.</p>

<p>A look at the progress and potential pitfalls in California's $3 billion stem cell research program.</p>

<p>Hiran Ratnayake published the following three stories on nursing in Delaware:</p> <p><a href="#Nursing gap" target="_self">The nursing gap</a></p> <p><a href="#Spanish" target="_self">Delaware short of nurses who speak Spanish</a></p> <p><a href="#Practice trains" target="_self">Practice trains nurses to work with Spanish-speaking patients</a></p> <p><a href="#Classrooms" target="_self">Would-be nurses can't find enough classrooms</a></p>

<p>Mary Agnes Carey wrote her fellowship project story about community health care patients needing specialty care.</p>

<p>In hopes of reducing the national cost of health care, the Congressional Budget Office will produce a report with options to help save money. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Primary care may give way to specialization</p>

<p><em>These stories on the challenges of managing diabetes were reported with the assistance of the USC Annenberg/California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, administered by the USC Annenberg School for Communication. The Express-News and KWEX-TV were selected by the program in 2008 to repo