By EMILY MULLIN, Scripps Howard News Service

WASHINGTON - Problems still linger for accurately counting urban, immigrant and prison populations in the 2010 census, advocates and experts say.

Members of the National Urban League, the NAACP and the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson met recently with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to express their concerns about how blacks are counted in the census.

In the aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings last week, the spotlight is suddenly on the military's overstressed mental health care system.

Questions are emerging about how a few hundred military mental health counselors are treating thousands and thousands of men and women in the armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.

WASHINGTON - Civil liberties advocates caution that mandatory vaccinations, forced quarantines and restricted interstate travel would not only endanger individual rights but also would be unlikely to prevent disease in the event of a severe H1N1 outbreak.

WASHINGTON - New digital and mobile technologies could help improve health care and cut costs for patients, but health experts say these services are not often covered by private insurance plans.