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<p>Are nursing home workers with criminal records really endangering residents? It's hard to tell from a new inspector general's report.</p>

<p>As you may have learned about through DiabetesMine today, the Diabetes Hands Foundation (the nonprofit responsible for TuDiabetes, EsTuDiabetes and diabetes awareness programs such as Big Blue Test, No-Sugar Added Poetry and Word In Your Hand) has received a capacity building grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.&nbsp;We wanted to share this great news with the RoH community!</p>

<p>Radiation from Japan's emerging nuclear crisis isn't likely to reach the West Coast, experts say. Plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>The San Francisco Public Press, a startup news organization doing public-affairs reporting in the Bay Area, is producing an in-depth explanatory project examining the track record of a city-sponsored health care program called Healthy San Francisco.</p>

<p>Someone at the Washington Post is having a <em>very</em> bad day today. <a href="http://gawker.com/#%215782069/heres-a-washington-post-story-with-all-th… Gawker reports, a health story went live on the newspaper’s website</a> with all of the editor’s comments in it. The story was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/14/AR20110… pulled down</a>, but Gawker helpfully pasted the entire story on its site beforehand.</p>

<p>Mobile health applications, mHealth, health apps -- no matter what you call them, they are a hot topic here at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas.</p>

<p>Health risks from Japan's earthquake-damaged nuclear facilities are minimal - for now. Plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Dr. Carl Elliott, a University of Minnesota bioethicist, has spent much of the last two years doggedly pursuing the case of Dan Markingson, a 26-year-old who killed himself during a UM clinical trial meant to prove the superiority of AstraZeneca’s Seroquel over its competitors.</p>

<p>Here’s the latest in health and health journalism news from Reporting on Health. Our hearts also go out to the people of Japan after today’s catastrophic earthquake – here’s <a href="http://yourlife.usatoday.com/mind-soul/doing-good/kindness/post/2011/03… to help</a> the victims.</p>