Insights

<p>After four days of sharing, debating, and challenging my colleagues in health journalism, here are my five takeaways from last week's Association of Health Care Journalists conference.</p>

<p>Solana discusses his new job at the Medicare NewsGroup and why journalists shouldn't be afraid to chance something new.</p>

<p>Those with experience writing for a health professionals might be interested in this week's featured opportunity. Also, check out the Awards section for more deadlines this weekend; there's still time to get your entries in.</p>

<p>Do you think you get all of the information you need during an interview? Think again.</p>

<p>When is a medical study on its own not worth a story? A recent study on music therapy for anxiety offers some clues.</p>

<p>Latinos are the fastest-growing minority group in Minnesota. Tens of thousands of mostly-Mexican immigrants have settled in the state in the last decade, and much of that growth has happened outside of the Twin Cities in smaller communities like Rochester, Worthington and Faribault.</p>

<p>A million-dollar prostate, new revelations on breast cancer, the link (or lack thereof) between gum disease and heart attacks, problems with biotech crops and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>A graphic view of military medicine in Afghanistan, questioning the impact of food deserts, and AIDS drugs for the uninfected, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>You’d hope organ donors would be dead beyond any doubt when their organs are harvested, but in his new book, Dick Teresi argues that they may not be dead enough.</p>

<p>Sushi salmonella rolls, saving on health costs by improving quality of life, tying doctor pay to the value they provide, the trouble with market-based health reform, and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>