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ProPublica - Health

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

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How the Trump Administration Abandoned Plans for a Major Cut in Disability Benefits for Older Workers

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Trump's VA Made It Harder for Male Veterans to Get Treatment for Breast Cancer. Lawmakers Want to Fix That.

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

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A Sick System: -- Repeat Attacks After Pleading Insanity

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

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Arterial Motives: -- The Big Business of Clogged Arteries

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Birth Rights: -- Investigating Florida's NICA Program

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dollars for Doctors: -- How Industry Money Reaches Physicians

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lost Mothers: -- Maternal Care and Preventable Deaths

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Series: Nursing Homes

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

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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

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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

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

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Wasted Medicine: -- Squandered Health Care Dollars

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When Caregivers Harm: -- America's Unwatched Nurses

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

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

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

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Sick in a Hospital Town

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

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

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

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Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 4: The Last Safety Net

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Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 5: Too Big to Fight

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Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy

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The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They're Being Censored.

21 days ago

"Ticking Time Bomb": A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn't Get an Abortion in Texas.

23 days ago

He Vowed to "Protect the Unborn." Now He's Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin's New Moms.

25 days ago

Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules

1 month ago

Citing Trump Order on "Biological Truth," VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage

1 month ago

My State Banned Vaccine Mandates. Here's How I Covered It as an Idaho Journalist.

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Senators Propose Sweeping Changes to Generic Drug Oversight

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Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won't Tell You.

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Here's What Happened When ProPublica Reporters Tried to Find Out Where a Popular Prescription Drug Was Made

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Why Did You Leave the Department of Veterans Affairs?

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Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.

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On the Front Line of the Fluoride Wars, Debate Over Drinking Water Treatment Turns Raucous

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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here's How to File It.

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Failed Root Canals, Lost Implants: How a Utah Dentist Accused of Substandard Care Was Allowed to Keep Practicing

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The Salt Lake Tribune

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NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate

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Georgia's Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says

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For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.

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Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.

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"Unacceptable": Prominent U.S. Senators Demand FDA Provide Names of Troubled Foreign Drugmakers Skirting Import Bans

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Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started

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"Just Let Me Die": After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple's Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope

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Idaho's Coroner System Is "Broken and a Joke." Here Are 5 Ideas From Coroners on How to Fix It.

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How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies

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How We Tracked Workforce Reductions at Federal Health Agencies

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RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.

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Trump's Rollback of Rules for Mental Health Coverage Could Lead More Americans to Go Without Care

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The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.

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A Giant Indian Drugmaker Failed to Fix Safety Breaches. The FDA Let It Off the Hook Again and Again.

4 months ago

Veterans' Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals

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"We Want to Save This Investment": Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out

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A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives.

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The FDA Is Cracking Down on an Indian Drugmaker Investigated by ProPublica Last Year

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RFK Jr. Wants to Change a Program That Stopped Vaccine Makers From Leaving the U.S. Market. They Could Flee Again.

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FDA Inspectors Again Find Dangerous Breakdowns at an Indian Factory Supplying Medications to U.S. Consumers

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He Was Accused of Killing His Wife. Idaho's Coroner System Let Clues Vanish After a Previous Wife's Death.

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Texas Overhauls Anti-Abortion Program That Spent Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars With Little Oversight

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FDA Layoffs Could Compromise Safety of Medications Made at Foreign Factories, Inspectors Say

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A "Striking" Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

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