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ProPublica - Health

Bird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won't Act.

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Nuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims.

2 days ago

Ken Paxton's Anti-Abortion Influence Already Extended Beyond Texas. He Could Take It Further in the Senate.

5 days ago

American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk

16 days ago

Senators Criticize Trump Administration's Demands to Access Health Data as a Condition for Lifesaving Aid

2 months ago

House Democrats Demand Answers From Trump's VA on Vets Struggling to Access Mental Healthcare

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

10 months ago

A Sick System: -- Repeat Attacks After Pleading Insanity

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

Arterial Motives: -- The Big Business of Clogged Arteries

11 months ago

Birth Rights: -- Investigating Florida's NICA Program

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

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Dollars for Doctors: -- How Industry Money Reaches Physicians

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

Lost Mothers: -- Maternal Care and Preventable Deaths

11 months ago

Series: Nursing Homes

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

11 months ago

Omniscan: -- Specter of MRI Disease Haunts General Electric

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Opioid Billionaires: -- The Deceptive Marketing of OxyContin

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Overdose: -- Acetaminophen and Accidental Overdoses

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

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Policing Patient Privacy: -- Patient Privacy and Medical Care

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

11 months ago

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

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

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

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

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Stuck Kids: -- Illinois Children Languish in Psychiatric Hospitals

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

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

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Trauma After Tragedy: -- PTSD in First Responders

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Unattended: -- Idaho's Troubled Coroner System

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

Wasted Medicine: -- Squandered Health Care Dollars

11 months ago

When Caregivers Harm: -- America's Unwatched Nurses

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.

23 days ago

A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.

24 days ago

"A Clear Watering Down": Drug Transparency Bill Stripped of Critical Provisions Ahead of Senate Vote

1 month ago

Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It's Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

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Idaho Law Protects Faith Healers. It Wasn't Always That Way.

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Children in a Faith-Healing Sect Keep Dying. The State Lets It Happen.

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His Research on Pregnant Opioid Users Was Widely Celebrated. Auditors and Experts Found Major Flaws.

2 months ago

Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment

2 months ago

Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and Abuse Followed.

2 months ago

5 Raw Quotes From America's Largest Raw-Milk Dairy Owner

3 months ago

Lawmakers Call for CDC to Track Vitamin K Shot Refusals, Cite ProPublica Report

3 months ago

Washington Law Says to Alert the Public When Doctors Are Accused of Misconduct. It Can Take Months.

3 months ago

Do You Administer SNAP or Medicaid Benefits? Help ProPublica Report on America's Safety Net.

4 months ago

Do You Work or Volunteer for Connecticut's Emergency Medical Services? We Want to Hear From You.

4 months ago

Connecticut: Have You Called 911 for Help? Tell Us About Your Experience.

4 months ago

"Digital Colonialism": U.S. Demands to Access Africans' Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns

4 months ago

A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now He's Changed His Tune.

4 months ago

How a 25-Cent Cancer Pill Became a Hundred-Billion-Dollar Business

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He Profits Off Raw Milk That's Making People Sick. The Government Isn't Stopping Him.

4 months ago

What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America's Measles Outbreaks

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Founder of Kentucky Drug Rehab Center Indicted on Fraud and Money Laundering Charges

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These Republican Lawmakers Challenged Abortion Bans. Then They Faced Backlash.

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More Than $100 Million Was Billed for Medically Questionable Vascular Procedures, Government Watchdog Finds

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How to Fight a Health Insurance Denial With a Little-Known Tool

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She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas' Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor's Office Didn't Help.

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Tell Us About Your Experience With Kentucky's Addiction Recovery Care

5 months ago

Tiny Footprints, a Blue Blanket: What I Can't Forget About the Babies Who Died of Vitamin K Deficiency

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What the FDA Won't Tell You About Your Medications

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A Unique Oregon Law Allows It to Block Healthcare Deals. In Five Years, the State Hasn't Done So Once.

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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

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Inmates Have Died in the Care of Armor Health Companies. Jails Keep Contracting With Them Anyway.

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

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

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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish

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

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

7 months ago