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Tonight's keynote speaker Gregory Warner has opened my eyes to a different way of reporting.  It broke away from the tradition "personalizing" a story by including views from officials, experts, and even innamite objects.  Very interesting to me and I look forward to applying this approach....

    The fifth and final story in my series, "Invisible Nations, Enduring Ills," on health disparities affecting Native Americans in the Portland area ran today on the front page of The Sunday Oregonian. Today's story focuses on the dramatic success and efficiency of an innovative Native American health organization in Anchorage, Alaska, called...

Film moguls never anticipated the shooting just the other day of over 70 people with 12 dead at a midnight screening of the latest Batman film in Aurora, Colorado. The media has been quick to seek out so-called experts to comment on this man's behavior, thinking, his personality and every aspect they can possibly form into a question. The problem is that most of the experts are not experts in the true sense of having any educational background in dealing with individuals who engage in what must be seen as pathological behavior.

After several years on the health beat, I've learned that covering health more comprehensively means paying more attention to how people’s health is affected by where they live.

Whooping cough resurgence, a better way of assessing body fat, the counterfeit Avastin saga and more from our Daily Briefing.

The Bulletin covers the business of medicine for the daily news sections and publishes an award-winning weekly health section and a quarterly magazine.

Antidote already has started some momentum. If others join in, we could change public perception, improve public safety and save lives.

During heated protests over collective bargaining last year outside the state Capitol in Madison, several doctors wrote sick notes to excuse protesters from school or work. Their action sparked significant debate.

How to cure an egg-white allergy, taxing tobacco in China, groundwater in the Inland Empire and more from our Daily Briefing.

Among the Bamasaba (also known as the Gishu) of Mbale and Mount Elgon region in Eastern Uganda, every leap year is a traditional circumcision year. To them, male circumcision is a cultural rite for initiation into manhood.