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ProPublica - Health

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

16 hours ago

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

14 days ago

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

15 days ago

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

16 days ago

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

21 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

9 months ago

A Sick System: -- Repeat Attacks After Pleading Insanity

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Arterial Motives: -- The Big Business of Clogged Arteries

10 months ago

Birth Rights: -- Investigating Florida's NICA Program

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Dollars for Doctors: -- How Industry Money Reaches Physicians

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Lost Mothers: -- Maternal Care and Preventable Deaths

10 months ago

Series: Nursing Homes

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Omniscan: -- Specter of MRI Disease Haunts General Electric

10 months ago

Opioid Billionaires: -- The Deceptive Marketing of OxyContin

10 months ago

Overdose: -- Acetaminophen and Accidental Overdoses

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Policing Patient Privacy: -- Patient Privacy and Medical Care

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Stuck Kids: -- Illinois Children Languish in Psychiatric Hospitals

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Trauma After Tragedy: -- PTSD in First Responders

10 months ago

Unattended: -- Idaho's Troubled Coroner System

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Wasted Medicine: -- Squandered Health Care Dollars

10 months ago

When Caregivers Harm: -- America's Unwatched Nurses

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

19 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

What the FDA Won't Tell You About Your Medications

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

6 months ago

Senate Leaders Warn Defense Department About Procuring Generic Drugs Overseas

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago