Insights

<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>

<p>Two researchers are calling for removal of severely obese kids from their homes to “protective custody” in the foster care system. There's a better solution.</p>

<p>James O'Keefe's "exposé" of Medicaid workers, the high cost of family caregivers and good news for statins, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>We start the week in the <em>Daily Briefing</em> with a salty story, global health and the CIA in Pakistan, and ideas for writing about AIDS.</p>

<p>Learn more about the key role two St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalists played in a new state law giving Missouri's medical board some real power to protect patients.</p>

<p>Consider this: Mobile phones have created the broadest platform for people to engage with media ever. So if journalists aren't using mobile technology to engage with their audiences, are they missing a huge opportunity to connect efficiently and effectively?</p>