Insights

<p>Gastrointestinal deaths are on the rise in the United States, and norovirus and c. difficile are partly to blame.</p>

<p>My experience reporting on health care in Oregon has been mostly positive, particularly with regards to transparency. Public information is typically handed over without fuss, officials are reachable and often willing to talk and the state, at least from my experience, has a generally favorable attitude toward the press. When I started my project on patient safety, I figured I would encounter much the same thing. I was wrong.</p>

<p>Is health reform to "blame" for sea changes in San Francisco's experiment in universal access to health care for city residents? Learn more and get tips for reporting on health reform in your own community.</p>

<p>What can health journalists take away from this year's SXSW Interactive conference? Here is a roundup and reading and tweets that might help you think about the evolution of health media and information.</p>

<p>Headlines matter. And you can’t have it both ways: one saying “reduces death” and another saying “isn’t saving lives.” Screening messages are confusing enough for the general public; journalism shouldn’t make it even harder to decipher.</p>

<p>Why are nitrates from agriculture such a big problem for groundwater in California's fertile Central Valley?</p>

<p>There aren’t enough therapists in the world to help the hundreds of millions of people who suffer complex trauma. But one former pastor is tackling the topic in his own community.</p>

<p>The most exciting exchange erupting on Twitter last week wasn’t about Kony 2012. Or Nandito Ako. It was about NNT — number needed to treat.</p>

<p>Editors from <em>The Economist</em> and NPR put on their lab coats and offer advice for addding rigor, context and precision to your reporting.</p>

<p>Drop that T-bone! Or should you? Unpacking a large study of the risk of dying from routinely eating red meat.&nbsp;</p>