ProPublica: One type of airport body scanner deployed by the TSA has raised health concerns, but a safer type has registered such high false-alarm rates that Germany and France have nixed it.

Ralph De La Cruz: South Florida officials want TSA to prove the safety of “backscatter” scanners — or pull them from the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

M.C. Moewe: State fund bolsters companies’ profits while Florida drivers continue to pay.

M.C. Moewe: Fondo estatal apoya las ganancias corporativas, mientras que los conductores de la Florida siguen pagando.

Ralph De La Cruz: The people we trust and respect, police and doctors, are the subjects of fascinating investigations by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and ProPublica.

Sasha Chavkin and Ronnie Greene: Cada año desde 2005 hasta 2009, la enfermedad renal ha matado a 2.800 hombres en Centroamérica, según el análisis de los datos de la Organización Mundial de la Salud llevado a cabo por la International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Sasha Chavkin and Ronnie Greene: Mysterious kidney disease has killed thousands of men in an isolated region of Central America, but why?

Ralph De La Cruz: According to a recent report, the state’s plan to charge every Medicaid recipient $10 per month could result in the disenrollment of 800,000 Floridians, the overwhelming majority children.

Eliván Martínez: La principal productora de semillas transgénicas del mundo alquila parte de las mejores tierras agrícolas de la Isla con un esquema de legalidad cuestionable, mientras recibe incentivos de la administración Fortuño.

ProPublica: Medicaid programs have long had evidence that a few physicians prescribed risky drugs in excess. But states only began to investigate after an inquiry by Sen. Charles Grassley.