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ProPublica - Health

"A Punch in the Gut": After Years of Waiting, Many Opioid Victims Will Be Shut Out of Purdue Settlement

4 days ago

Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women

10 days ago

Omaha Is Home to a Massive Superfund Site. Most Kids Living There Aren't Tested for Lead.

12 days ago

Omaha tiene un sitio Superfund masivo. A la mayoría de los niños que vive allí no se les hacen pruebas de plomo.

12 days ago

Senate Leaders Warn Defense Department About Procuring Generic Drugs Overseas

2 months ago

The Clear Labels Act Would Change What You Know About Your Prescription Medication

2 months ago

A 911 Emergency: -- Rhode Island's Deadly 911 Flaws

4 months ago

A Sick System: -- Repeat Attacks After Pleading Insanity

5 months ago

America's Mental Barrier: -- How Insurers Interfere With Mental Health Care

5 months ago

Arterial Motives: -- The Big Business of Clogged Arteries

5 months ago

Birth Rights: -- Investigating Florida's NICA Program

5 months ago

Broken Pathways: -- How a Medicaid Work Requirement Program Fails Georgians

5 months ago

Coronavirus: -- The U.S. Response to COVID-19

5 months ago

Crisis Point: -- How New York Wrecked Mental Health Care for Kids

5 months ago

Critical Condition: -- Investigating the Business of Oklahoma's Rural Hospitals

5 months ago

Culture of Cruelty: -- Inside Illinois' Mental Health System

5 months ago

Dialysis: -- High Costs and Hidden Perils of a Treatment Guaranteed to All

5 months ago

Dollars for Doctors: -- How Industry Money Reaches Physicians

5 months ago

Examining Medicare: -- A Closer Look at Medicare Part B

5 months ago

Health Insurance Hustle: -- The Confounding Way We Pay for Care

5 months ago

Heart Failure: -- The Decline of a Historic Transplant Program

5 months ago

HeartWare: -- Deadly Malfunctions, FDA Inaction and Vulnerable Patients

5 months ago

Life of the Mother: -- How Abortion Bans Lead to Preventable Deaths

5 months ago

Long-Term Challenge: -- Maine's Lax Oversight of Residential Care Facilities

5 months ago

Lost Mothers: -- Maternal Care and Preventable Deaths

5 months ago

Series: Nursing Homes

5 months ago

Obamacare and You: -- The Rollout of the Affordable Care Act

5 months ago

Omniscan: -- Specter of MRI Disease Haunts General Electric

5 months ago

Opioid Billionaires: -- The Deceptive Marketing of OxyContin

5 months ago

Overdose: -- Acetaminophen and Accidental Overdoses

5 months ago

Patient Safety: -- Exploring Quality of Care in the U.S.

5 months ago

Policing Patient Privacy: -- Patient Privacy and Medical Care

5 months ago

Rx Roulette: -- The FDA's Dangerous Gamble on America's Drugs

5 months ago

Sloan Kettering's Crisis: -- A Reckoning Over Industry Ties

5 months ago

St. Jude's Unspent Billions: -- Behind the Hospital's Claims to Donors

5 months ago

State of Denial: -- Inside Arizona's Division of Developmental Disabilities

5 months ago

Stillbirths: -- When Babies Die Before Taking Their First Breath

5 months ago

Stuck Kids: -- Illinois Children Languish in Psychiatric Hospitals

5 months ago

The $3 Million Research Breakdown: -- University of Illinois at Chicago's Troubling Study

5 months ago

The Hospice Hustle: -- How a Visionary Movement Became a Plaything for Profiteers

5 months ago

Trauma After Tragedy: -- PTSD in First Responders

5 months ago

Unattended: -- Idaho's Troubled Coroner System

5 months ago

Veterans Without Assistance: -- Investigating Mental Health Care in the VA System

5 months ago

Veterans' Care at Risk: -- Rapid Change Under Trump Creates Uncertainty

5 months ago

Wasted Medicine: -- Squandered Health Care Dollars

5 months ago

When Caregivers Harm: -- America's Unwatched Nurses

5 months ago

With Every Breath: -- Millions of Breathing Machines. One Dangerous Defect

5 months ago

Are You Waiting for Opioid Settlement Money From Purdue, Mallinckrodt or Endo? Get in Touch.

4 days ago

They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud.

18 days ago

For-Profit Hospital Chain Never Put Aside Money for Malpractice Insurance to Compensate Injured Patients

18 days ago

RFK Jr. May Reverse a Peptide Ban He Calls "Illegal." Former FDA Officials Say He Mischaracterized Their Work.

24 days ago

A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.

28 days ago

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish

1 month ago

An OB-GYN Was Repeatedly Accused of Sexual Misconduct. The State Medical Board Let Him Keep Practicing.

1 month ago

She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.

1 month ago

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues

1 month ago

They Didn't Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

1 month ago

Nevada Regulators Fine Peptide Providers at Anti-Aging Festival Where Two Women Became Critically Ill

1 month ago

Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump

1 month ago

He Promised His Dying Mother He'd Protect the Family's Health. In This Georgia Town, It Isn't Easy.

1 month ago

South Carolina Hospitals Aren't Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark.

2 months ago

New Moms in Wisconsin to Get Extension of Vital Benefits After GOP Powerbroker Ends Holdout

2 months ago

Insurer Agrees to Pay Millions for Failing to Fix Errors That Made It Harder for Customers to Get Mental Health Care

2 months ago

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments

2 months ago

After Years of Silence, Texas Medical Board Issues Training for Doctors on How to Legally Provide Abortions

2 months ago

Idaho Seeks to Improve Its Troubled Coroner System and Lagging Child Autopsy Rates

2 months ago

"A Godsend": ProPublica's Rx Inspector Tool Is Helping People Find Critical Safety Information on Generic Drugs

3 months ago

ProPublica Publishes Unreleased Data on the Origins of Generic Prescription Drugs

1 month ago

Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans

3 months ago

Her Daughter Died After Taking a Generic Version of a Lifesaving Drug. This Is What She Wants You to Know.

3 months ago

A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn't Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.

3 months ago

After Sowing Distrust in Fluoridated Water, Kennedy and Skeptics Turn to Obstructing Other Fluoride Sources

3 months ago

They Couldn't Access Mental Health Care When They Needed It. Now They're Suing Their Insurer.

3 months ago

Medical Examiners Warn That Controversial Lung Float Test Could Be Dangerous

3 months ago

Medical License Revoked for Montana Doctor Linked to Suspicious Deaths

4 months ago

What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid

4 months ago

The FDA Often Doesn't Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did

4 months ago

I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.

4 months ago

How the FDA's Lax Generic Drug Rules Put Her Life at Risk

4 months ago

Inside the Free Clinic Caring for Those Who Can't Afford the Only Hospital in Town

4 months ago

Rx Inspector: ProPublica's New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won't

4 months ago

How We Created a Tool That Tells You Where Your Generic Drugs Were Made

4 months ago

Look Up Where Your Generic Prescription Drugs Were Made

4 months ago

Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.

4 months ago

The Salt Lake Tribune

7 months ago

The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds

4 months ago

Senator Endorses Discredited Doctor's Book on a Chemical He Claims Treats Everything From Autism to Cancer

4 months ago

These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills.

4 months ago

Sick in a Hospital Town

4 months ago

Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 1: The Business of Care

4 months ago

Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 2: The Making of a Monopoly

4 months ago

Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 3: Poor Grades, Poor Outcomes

4 months ago