Insights

<p>Online review sites should not be a forum for falsehoods, but defamation suits against patients who post legitimate critiques of medical services are a threat to free speech and a threat to safe medicine. Here's a case in point.</p>

<p>There's still time to apply for the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism; send your applications in by today. Also, check out the latest job openings for editors and writers for various publications and medical organizations.</p>

<p>Go beyond event listings and corporate tie-ins to do substantial reporting on women's heart health this month. Here are some ideas to get you started.</p>

<p>Reporters have an unprecedented opportunity this year to chronicle a historic battle in the unfolding story of federal health reform. Yet getting the story right will depend on mastering the details.</p>

<p>Public health researchers take aim at sugar, Elizabeth Banks makes a heart attack movie, new advances in treating prostate cancer and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Dan Wood, the new PIO at California's Medical Board, isn't fazed by reporters' questions. After all, he used to ask the same ones.</p>

<p>I couldn’t help thinking about the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon as I reported my series on children and violence in Wilmington, Delaware.</p>

<p>Why did the nation's leading breast cancer charity cut off funding to Planned Parenthood? We examine the backstory.</p>

<p>Toxic hair straightening, a new drug for cystic fibrosis, a religious battle over birth control and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>