Insights

<p>Little evidence for ER wait marketing claims, new EPA rules on mercury emissions, and news about a controversial chronic fatigue finding, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>The Open Notebook's Pitch Database gives freelance health journalists great examples and lessons to help them get their stories into magazines.</p>

<p>Voting on a medical marijuana bureaucracy, health reform developments to watch in 2012, another delayed Medicare doc fix and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>My second annual article on some of the health care news releases I saved in 2011 before I clean out the folder and start all over again in 2012.</p>

<p>A journal editor responds to criticisms about controversial research that linked infant deaths to fallout from Japan's earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.</p>

<p>Investigative reporter Terri Langford — a self-described Medicare "rookie" — details how she reported her Houston Chronicle series on how private ambulance companies are gaming the Medicare system.&nbsp;</p>

<p>I had been researching pieces of the topic of my National Health Journalism Fellowship project, the challenges to healthy eating for low-income Bostonians, for more than a year before I started. Here's what I learned, from challenges to surprises.</p>

<p>The press release made a startling claim: researchers had linked radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster to 14,000 deaths in the United States, with infants hardest hit. How can journalists evaluate the credibility of such a claim?</p>

<p>A Democratic claim about Medicare, huge appetite for generic Lipitor, and the loss of public health jobs, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Just because something is published in a major journal or in a news release from a major medical center, it doesn't mean it's set in stone.</p>