Recruiting doctors to live and work in rural America is a chronic problem. Most health centers try to attract workers with big salaries and expensive homes. One center in Maine was trying to lure medical students to the countryside for their final two years with the hope that they stick around. The Ashland Health Clinic, a tiny hospital in southwest Kansas, is trying a different tack — a reverse-recruitment model. It's called mission-focused medicine, and it's based on serving problems most commonly found in third-world countries.

A Dozen Cases Of Tuberculosis That Resists All Drugs Found In India by Richard Knox.  Published January 11, 2012. Infectious disease specialists say there will surely be more cases of totally drug-resistant tuberculosis in India and other countries where cases of TB that don't respond to some drugs are being inadequately treated.

The DO published Q&A: Eye-opening turn treating farm workers forges new DO’s career path  Posted Jan. 5, 2012    By Carolyn Schierhorn / Staff Editor  Summary:  Adam S. Hoverman, DO, describes his expreience becoming a National Health Service Corps scholar and discovering the profound health care disparities that exist and are largely ignored.

Immigration Upended:  Migrants' New Paths Reshaping Latin America    By DAMIEN CAVE   

FY2012 Omnibus Appropriations Act Allows for Expansion of Community Health Centers to Meet Pressing Need Around the Country