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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div>When I was selected to be part of The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship program back in June 2010, I had three story ideas I wanted to develop for my fellowship projects. They involved three major health problems affecting the Latino community in the United States: health disparities of Latino women, diabetes and obesity among Mexican immigrants and Latinos affected by HIV/AIDS.</div></div>

<p>Did Arizona's mental health system fail alleged Tucson shooter Jared Loughner? Plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Homicide humbled, orange juice investigated and 2012 health policy predicted, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p><p><em>This is one in a series of articles, running between Thanksgiving and January, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/gurley/detail?entry_id=77054&quot; target="

<p>In the wake of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' recovery, attention turns to traumatic brain injuries. Plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Last week Antidote introduced you to Dr. Steven Balt, the rare physician to have the courage to open up about his personal experiences with the physician discipline system. The <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/qa-dr-steven-balt-part-1-separating-personal-struggles-clinical-success">first part of our interview</a> was posted last week. The last part is below. <strong></strong><strong></strong></p>

<p>Tom Paulson was one of 140 employees who lost their jobs when the <em>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</em> newspaper went online-only in March, 2009. This week at Career GPS, Paulson expands on what it means to restart a career and what gets gained and lost in the process.</p>

<p>Does our drinking water have too much fluoride in it? Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>When I wrote in 2009 about <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/doctors-addictions-left-hanging-diversion-program-dies" target="_blank">the death of the Medical Board of California’s diversion program</a>, some medical board staffers expressed disbelief that I would say anything nice about a program that had been so controversial.</p>

<p>The Health IT track at OSCON this week brought together three of the thought leaders working to create a Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).</p>