Insights

<p>Ridiculously fattening foods, the perils of testing for Alzheimer's and the link between flying and patient safety, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Michelle Obama kicks off a new $200 million loan fund to bring more fresh and nutritious food to the California communities that need it most.</p>

<p>This week, we highlight a Healthcare Research Writer-Editor vacancy at Thomson Reuters. Also featured are a variety of print and online opportunities on the East Coast. In addition, find the most updated information on upcoming grants, fellowships and educational opportunities.</p>

<p>Eighteen years ago (1993) the government of Puerto Rico performed a major operation on its public health system. Mainly, it gave people in economic need the opportunity to access private health services, with public funding. National Health Journalism Fellow&nbsp;Marga Parés will report on the initiative in its newest iteration for her reporting project.</p>

<p>We have long been worried about the ways in which the media helps perpetuate negative stereotypes of boys and men of color, but this appears to be overtly criminalizing a preschooler.</p>

<p>As the health reform law nears its two-year anniversary, I will be using my Dennis A. Hunt Fund award to report a three-part series on the challenges and opportunities of reform law’s preventive programs, examining whether new approaches and bolstered funding are paying dividends at the ground level.</p>

<p>Health apps, birth control, hunger stikes and mental health in today's <em>Daily Briefing</em>.</p>

<p>Earlier this year, the New England Journal of Medicine named Oklahoma as the state that will have the worst access to health care when Medicaid expands in 2014.</p>

<p>A man was fatally shot in his wheelchair -- a wheelchair he has used since a shooting eight years ago.</p>

<p>No one should have to cite a public records law to gain access to records. But not everyone agrees with me.</p>