Insights

<p>Consider this: Mobile phones have created the broadest platform for people to engage with media ever. So if journalists aren't using mobile technology to engage with their audiences, are they missing a huge opportunity to connect efficiently and effectively?</p>

<p>Health experts still debate whether wearing hospital scrubs outside the hospital can increase patients' infection risk. Could an Ottawa hospital be the perfect site to investigate that question?</p>

<p>This week: The Healthy Living section of the Huffington Post seeks a Health News Editor. Also highlighted are opportunities at various online outlets. And as always, we've included the most updated information on upcoming grants, fellowships and educational opportunities.</p>

<p><strong></strong>A new reporting project will focus on community health challenges facing predominantly Latino communities in Chicago and the Midwest.</p>

<p>Check out our upcoming webinars on how to build your own "health reporting survival kit" and embedding multimedia content on your blog or website!</p>

<p>Why should journalists or the public have to cite a state or federal law to request public documents produced by a public agency with public money?</p>

<p>"Dignity therapy" is a "novel psychotherapeutic approach" that gives patients with a 6-month life expectancy "an opportunity to reflect on things that matter most to them or that they would most want remembered." In fact, hospice volunteers have been providing dignity therapy for decades.</p>

<p>This week, a delegation from Ireland is expected to meet with officials in Bahrain to lobby them to drop charges against dozens of doctors and nurses who have been arrestedfor treating victims of the government’s crackdown on protesters.</p>

<p>Bad air on school buses, the benefits of Medicaid, concerns over hospice care and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Featured this week is a communications and marketing opportunity with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials in Virginia. We also list the most updated information on upcoming grants, fellowships and educational opportunities.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>