Insights

<p>I'm a little confused by this <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/moneyblog/archive/2010/08/13/why-aren-… magazine story</a> on what is apparently a contradiction in nursing: there is a shortage of nurses at a time when there is a glut of nurses looking for a job.</p> <p>I can't figure out if the story is saying that there are many nurses out there needing jobs, but many are not willing to deal with the working conditions - four 10-hour work days a week, and having to deal with mind-numbing, bureaucratic paperwork.</p>

<p>Science blogging vs. science journalism: Isn’t this debate <a href="http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/01/21/berk_es… yet</a>? Apparently not. Canadian journalist Colin Schultz <a href="http://colinschultz.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/science-bloggers-diversify… to a new study</a> by two Northwestern doctoral students suggesting that science bloggers rely on more diverse sources than political bloggers or traditional science journalists.</p> <p>Schultz writes:</p>

<p>Think about the news in the last month. What sticks out? What connected with you?</p> <p>It's much more likely that the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101100809,00.html">dramatic image of a young girl in Afghanistan on the Aug. 9 cover of Time magazine</a> is rising to the top than any text-heavy feature you marveled at this month. The power of images is clear -- they provoke, they tell stories, they resonate.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.prospect.org/">The American Prospect</a> has done health reporters everywhere a huge service.</p>

<p>From DNA backpedaling to irrational nonsense to Typhoid Mamey, here’s what we’re reading about this morning:</p>

<p>From Medicare scamsters to "biblical flu" to a simple walk to school, here's what we're reading today:</p>

<p>From extreme superbugs to NSFW cancer screening campaigns: welcome to Wednesday’s Daily Briefing!</p> <p>Here’s what we’re reading and watching today:</p>

<p><em>Antidote</em> has been on an alphabetical tour of state medical boards this year. As summer fades, I thought it would be a good time to pull over. To show where we’ve been, I created this Google map, and I will update it weekly.</p>

<p>It is a terrible irony that journalist Kevan Carter died so young — of a massive stroke at age 55 — after <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/projects/soul-food">writing so sweetly</a> about good food, soul food and the disproportionate toll that heart disease and stroke exact on African Americans.</p>

<p>I will be writing stories about the drops in life expectancy in the United States.</p> <p>The Lancet recently published research showing that the United States is lagging farther behind other countries in preventing deaths. The United States now ranks 49th in the world in female mortality and 45th for male mortality.</p>