Barbara Feder Ostrov

If it's attention Chicago Sun-Times execs wanted by hiring the celebrity Jenny McCarthy as a columnist and blogger, they certainly got it. Perhaps not the kind they wanted.

A new study of mosquitoes' end-run around malaria nets should challenge our assumptions about other worthy public health interventions.

It's great to get a national reporting internship. It's even better when you land an important lead poisoning story on the front page of USA Today - after only a month on the job.

Missed last night's Presidential debate? Here's a round-up of analysis of what the candidates said about health - and what they didn't say.

A public relations industry award highlights a Coca Cola campaign that some critics call "sugarwashing."

If black kids are seeing more alcohol ads than their counterparts, is it any wonder that alcohol is their drug of choice?

A New York City teen pregnancy prevention program that offered the morning-after birth control pill to high school students didn't seem all that controversial — at least until the New York Post got hold of the story.

A just-about-ready-for-prime-time interactive atlas from the CDC can be a great resource for your work.

So, organic food isn't really more nutritious than food grown with pesticides, according to a new study. Wait, what?...

Why is the indoor tanning industry demonizing physicians and others who warn of tanning's dangers?