Insights

<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG /> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting /> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>fals--></p><p>On World Neuroendocrine Tumor Awareness Day, Mitchell Berger shares his own experience with this rare type of cancer and examines what the media got wrong in reporting on Steve Jobs' death.</p>

<p>California kids are slightly less likely to be overweight than they were five years ago.</p>

<p>Anti-drug videos create buzz (no, not that kind), the case for banning sweet drinks in schools and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>At first it seemed pretty improbable. How could six, seven, eight different ethnic media outlets work together on one health story? What one issue would be compelling enough to interest them? Journalist Richard Kipling examines how the Home Alone project came together.</p>

<p>Nonprofit hospitals receive millions of dollars in tax breaks each year to care for the poor and uninsured. But do they do enough to justify their lucrative, tax-exempt status? Crunch the numbers to find out.</p>

<p>When I asked some of my favorite writers about whether Burger King bears any blame for the national obesity epidemic, they sent me enough great ideas for dozens of blog posts. Here are their insights.</p>

<p>I figured the air around Chicago rail yards would be dirty...but finding out was not as easy as it seemed.</p>

<p>Get tips from public radio journalist Sasha Khokha on how to report on the links between air pollution and health in your community.</p>

<p>New advice for urpy babies, your brain on traffic fumes, and another legal victory for health reform, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Victims of bad physician behavior everywhere are rubbing their eyes in disbelief today after Dr. Conrad Murray's conviction in the death of Michael Jackson.&nbsp;Here are five lessons from the case for regulatory agencies, prosecutors, patient advocates and journalists.</p>