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Infectious disease is dead. Long live infectious disease

Are many journalists so attuned to the study of lifestyle factors fueling the rise of cancer, heart disease and diabetes that infectious disease flew under the radar?

Q&A with Dick Teresi: "The Undead," Organ Harvesting and the Science of Brain Death

You’d hope organ donors would be dead beyond any doubt when their organs are harvested, but in his new book, Dick Teresi argues that they may not be dead enough.

The Invisible Slap

What happens in our society when whistleblowers are ignored? Should we ignore stories that cannot be conveniently packaged as "sound bite" material?

Two sides of a coin - advocacy and activism

Moving beyond sensationalism to providing balance as well as reliable, accurate facts in meaningful context can be challenging.

Career Profile: Flowers, freebies and other wonderful things that come with winning a Pulitzer Prize

A Pulitzer Prize winner talks about her career, her editors and how she got her first break. Also find the latest health media opportunities, this week in Career GPS.

Wakefield's Wake, Part 7: Blowback can be fierce and frightening for autism-vaccine stories

A good friend of mine read my recent posts about Andrew Wakefield and the controversy over whether vaccines have any role in causing autism and asked me whether I was concerned for my safety.

The bigger the Walmart, the bigger the waistline?

We end the week here at the Daily Briefing with new takes on big stories.

How I Got Here: The Genesis of Careers in Health Media

Last week, Ed Yong over at the Discover blog Not Exactly Rocket Science wrote a brilliant post.

And when I say brilliant, I mean to say that it is brilliant because he didn't write much at all. The post is called "On the Origin of Science Writing" and it's a lovely example of the power of crowd-sourcing. At last look, 124 people have commented to explain how they became science writers.

A Voice Fading in the Mist: A Last Blog, on Fake Fog, and Ecstasy Deaths

There is seldom a single cause of any tragedy or disaster. When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it wasn't just that there was a design flaw in the O-rings that were supposed to seal the hot gases within joints of the solid rocket boosters. It was damn cold that morning, and President Reagan really wanted some good copy to read into his State of the Union address that night. Technicians were advised to "take off their engineering hats," and act like managers. Launch it! Those fragile, frozen O-rings cracked like crystal ware.

Q&A with Mark Katches: Editor breaks reporting down to the chemical level

Mark Katches is the deputy managing editor for projects at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He leads a team of reporters who have been watch-dogging the use of chemicals in food containers and other products for the past two years.

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