Insights

<p>Gainesville is quickly growing into the medical hub of Florida. Check out this week’s featured opportunity to report from an area with three hospitals and several biotech operations.</p>

<p>Facebook promotes organ donation in a big way, the pros and cons of breakfast at school, and an attack on alternative medicine, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Aging doctors may not know when they're too old to practice safely. In the name of patient safety, should we be monitoring doctors as they get older?</p>

<p>Republicans and their allies are dusting off an old $500 billion deception about Medicare, trying once more to scare seniors into voting their way. How some media are catching on&nbsp;— and supplying much-needed context.</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Having people open up about atrocities that would make a normal person blanch can be difficult under any circumstance. Hearing the stories in translation underscores the complexities of understanding the effects of trauma on people from utterly different cultures.&nbsp;</p>

<p>During the month of April, Vida en el Valle ran a four-part series - called Latinos Protecting La Tierra – about environmental advocates from across the state. Why did we focus on the people fighting the environmental battles, rather than the issue itself?</p>

<p>How do you sort through the cacophony of health conversations taking place on Twitter? Healthcare hashtags can help.</p>

<p>Drug abuse, genetic disease clusters, mammography, comparison hospital shopping and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Drug shortages still painful for patients, little scrutiny of medical devices, contraception hurdles and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>When is a doctor too old to practice safely? That depends, says Dr. William Norcross, who founded a national doctors' remedial education center and now advocates for regular testing of aging doctors for cognitive problems like dementia.</p>