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The State Medical Board Has Evidence This Doctor Was Hurting Patients. It Renewed His License — Twice.
The Montana hospital that fired Dr. Thomas C. Weiner turned over thousands of pages of documents, but members of the board say they were unaware of them.
Thousands of Families Experience Stillbirth. Three Moms Tell Their Stories in a New Documentary.
More than 20,000 stillbirths occur in the U.S. each year, but 1 in 4 may be preventable. “Before a Breath” sheds light on three mothers fighting to change those statistics.
The FDA Finally Visited an Indian Drug Factory Linked to U.S. Deaths. It Found Problems.
The inspection comes after a ProPublica investigation revealed that drugs made at the Glenmark Pharmaceuticals plant accounted for an outsized share of U.S. recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly and could harm people.
This Hospital System Fought COVID, Then a Far-Right Leader. Now It’s Taking on Idaho’s Abortion Ban.
St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing its doctors on the abortion front.
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We Found Widespread Abuse of Disabled Patients at an Illinois Facility. The DOJ Is Investigating.
A federal probe into Illinois’ treatment of disabled people will examine abuse and neglect allegations at state-run residential institutions — including Choate, the subject of a yearlong Capitol News Illinois and ProPublica investigation.
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As Idaho Pushes to Reform Its Coroner System, Counties Seek to Make It Less Transparent
A bill moving forward with bipartisan support is described as a first step to addressing problems highlighted in a state report and by ProPublica. Meanwhile, counties seek to end access to coroners’ records that were key to ProPublica’s findings.
Insurers Failed to Comply With Mental Health Coverage Law, Department of Labor Report Finds
The probe found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation.
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Series: Life of the Mother: How Abortion Bans Lead to Preventable Deaths
Series: America’s Mental Barrier: How Insurers Interfere With Mental Health Care
Series: Veterans Without Assistance: Investigating Mental Health Care in the VA System
Series: Long-Term Challenge: Maine’s Lax Oversight of Residential Care Facilities
Series: With Every Breath: Millions of Breathing Machines. One Dangerous Defect
Series: Arterial Motives: The Big Business of Clogged Arteries
Series: The Hospice Hustle: How a Visionary Movement Became a Plaything for Profiteers
Series: Culture of Cruelty: Inside Illinois’ Mental Health System
Series: Stillbirths: When Babies Die Before Taking Their First Breath
Series: Crisis Point: How New York Wrecked Mental Health Care for Kids
Series: HeartWare: Deadly Malfunctions, FDA Inaction and Vulnerable Patients
Series: St. Jude’s Unspent Billions: Behind the Hospital’s Claims to Donors
Series: Birth Rights: Investigating Florida’s NICA Program
Series: State of Denial: Inside Arizona’s Division of Developmental Disabilities
Series: Critical Condition: Investigating the Business of Oklahoma’s Rural Hospitals
Series: Coronavirus: The U.S. Response to COVID-19
Series: Opioid Billionaires: The Deceptive Marketing of OxyContin
Series: A 911 Emergency: Rhode Island’s Deadly 911 Flaws
Series: The $3 Million Research Breakdown: University of Illinois at Chicago’s Troubling Study
Series: Sloan Kettering’s Crisis: A Reckoning Over Industry Ties
Series: A Sick System: Repeat Attacks After Pleading Insanity
Series: Trauma After Tragedy: PTSD in First Responders
Series: Stuck Kids: Illinois Children Languish in Psychiatric Hospitals
Series: Health Insurance Hustle: The Confounding Way We Pay for Care
Series: Heart Failure: The Decline of a Historic Transplant Program
Series: Lost Mothers: Maternal Care and Preventable Deaths
Series: Wasted Medicine: Squandered Health Care Dollars
Series: Policing Patient Privacy: Patient Privacy and Medical Care
Series: Examining Medicare: A Closer Look at Medicare Part B
Series: Obamacare and You: The Rollout of the Affordable Care Act
Series: Overdose: Acetaminophen and Accidental Overdoses
Series: Nursing Homes
Series: Patient Safety: Exploring Quality of Care in the U.S.
Series: Dialysis: High Costs and Hidden Perils of a Treatment Guaranteed to All
Series: Dollars for Doctors: How Industry Money Reaches Physicians
Series: Omniscan: Specter of MRI Disease Haunts General Electric
