Barbara Feder Ostrov

<p>New medical ethics on health costs, a failed biomed research center, and key 2012 dates for health reform, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Here's the final batch of my favorite health stories from 2011. Happy New Year!</p>

<p>As 2012 approaches, here is some of my favorite health journalism of the past year, with hopes that it will inform and inspire.</p>

<p>Little evidence for ER wait marketing claims, new EPA rules on mercury emissions, and news about a controversial chronic fatigue finding, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Voting on a medical marijuana bureaucracy, health reform developments to watch in 2012, another delayed Medicare doc fix and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>A journal editor responds to criticisms about controversial research that linked infant deaths to fallout from Japan's earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.</p>

<p>The press release made a startling claim: researchers had linked radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster to 14,000 deaths in the United States, with infants hardest hit. How can journalists evaluate the credibility of such a claim?</p>

<p>A Democratic claim about Medicare, huge appetite for generic Lipitor, and the loss of public health jobs, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Kim Jong Il's cause of death, a hospital boom's effect on consumers, building a better mammogram and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Christopher Hitchens loses his battle with cancer, the link between smoking and skin cancer, and a new IBM project to improve kids' health, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>