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Age stereotyping may be lurking in the corners of your life, so be on the lookout for it.

<p>To help combat the obesity epidemic, school districts are joining with local agencies – often for the first time – to work out a way to open their gates to the public after hours.</p>

<p>Medical Marijuana: Federal agents <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2012/04/02/federal_agents_ra… the “Oaksterdam” medical marijuana training school</a> today, briefly detaining school founder Richard Lee, one of the nation’s best-known advocates of medical marijuana, Terry Collins reports for the Associated Press.</p>

<p>Has autism always been with us at the numbers we see today, or is there actually more of it? It’s a complicated question, but the organization Autism Speaks is confusing the issue.</p>

<p>Reporters sometimes treat medicine as if newer is always better. It's not. Here's how to accurately report on the potential harms of a new treatment.</p>

<p>Check out a Consumer's Union Twitter chat today on the safety (or not) of medical devices.</p>

<p>Deadlines are fast approaching for this year's National Health Journalism Fellowship, Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism Grant and the inaugural Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health Journalism Fund Grant. Don't miss out on these opportunities.</p>

<p>Journalists and pundits alike speculated freely this week about how the Supreme Court will rule on health reform, based mostly on the justices' comments during oral arguments. Should they have?</p>

<p>Medify got lots of attention at SXSW Interactive for its implications for patients -- but it could also be a great tool for reporting on medical studies.</p>

<p>IUDs are safer than doctors think, autism diagnosis up, cancer diagnosis down, speculating on health reform and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>