Weekend Reading: Essays and investigations to help you rethink health

Today on the Daily Briefing, deeper reading for your weekend:

World Health Organization: In Foreign Policy, Jack C. Chow asks, "Is the WHO becoming irrelevant?"

Overseas: In Vanity Fair,  Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele investigate pharmaceutical companies' overseas clinical trials.

Policy: Stan Dorn and Matthew Buettgens at The Urban Institute explain the effects of the Affordable Care Act on state budgets. (Learn more about the Act's effects on public hospitals, the state of California, and the potential for fraud from the RoH archives.)

Word Play: A leaked email shows that Fox News purposefully slanted its health care reform coverage by using the misleading term "government option" instead of "public option." Ben Dimiero at Media Matters has the story.