Insights from the Editor

Beach Bummer: Gulf Residents Face Declining Emotional Health
If seeing sea turtles bellying up on Gulf coast beaches during the oil spill this summer made you a little sad, imagine what it did to residents. A new Gallup poll indicates that residents of Gulf coast counties have seen their overall emotional health decline since the start of the Gulf oil spill last spring. Self-reported cases of clinical depression are up, too, according to the poll.

Ben & Jerry's Dropping 'All-Natural' Label
What's in a name? For Ben & Jerry's ice cream lovers, names say a lot. Consider popular flavors like Chunky Monkey, Cherry Garcia, Dulce Delish, Chubby Hubby. The Vermont-based ice cream may still bear those signature names, but the colorful labels won't say "all natural" anymore. The company is dropping the term--which doesn't have much real meaning anyway--to avoid confusing its customers. There is no plan to change the ingredients.

Some Prostate Screening Guidance
It's one of the most difficult decisions in modern medicine: Should a man get a P.S.A. test and when? As Tara Parker-Pope writes in the New York Times , getting screened for early cancer detections seems simple enough. Except with a P.S.A, the blood test used to spot prostate cancer early, nothing is ever simple. Use of the test is widespread but it apparently saves few lives. But a new study may offer screening guidance to men 60 and older.