Insights

<p><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Efforts by California health advocates to ban the sale of sugary sports drinks during the school day on middle and high school campuses were recently thwarted.</p>

<p>Radioactive tuna, DSM controversy, online patient's groups and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Psychologist and mom Polly Palumbo didn't just get mad when she read irresponsible media coverage of children's health issues&nbsp;— she started debunking it in her blog, Momma Data.</p>

<p>Three more questions you should pursue based on the debate over the SorryWorks! program, which protects doctors who apologize for medical errors that harm patients.</p>

<p>Native Americans have the highest diabetes rate among all racial and ethnic groups in America and offer a preview of where the rest of the country is headed. They also have found ways to keep the disease at bay.</p>

<p>A juice manufacturer fights back, states spending little on tobacco prevention, apologies for Nazi-era medical atrocities and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>An oncologist offers his perspective on medical errors. The driving force is fear and guilt: fear for the mistakes you might make, guilt for the mistakes you already made.</p>

<p>Does being part of an organization that "works to reduce hidden risks to the health, safety, and well-being of American consumers" sound like a job for you? Don’t miss our featured opportunity.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The University of California-San Francisco medical school is now the nation's largest to make its faculty research free and available to the public. What does that mean for you?</p>

<p>With its many intimate subjects--poverty, abuse, homelessness--this series has made me a more honest reporter.</p>