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Florida Program to Aid Brain-Damaged Kids Often Told Families No. It’s Promising to Change.

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

“These Findings Boggle My Mind”: Audit Rips Apart Florida Program Created to Aid Brain-Damaged Kids

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

After 33 Years, Parents of Brain-Damaged Kids Get to Express Disgust With Florida Program

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

The Director of Florida’s Program for Brain Damaged Infants Has Resigned

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

A Boy Went to a COVID-Swamped ER. He Waited for Hours. Then His Appendix Burst.

by Jenny Deam,

Audit Confirms That a Program for Brain-Damaged Kids Arbitrarily Denied Claims and Overspent on Perks

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

Making Life-or-Death Health Care Decisions

by Karim Doumar,

Tell Us About Your Experience With Life-Sustaining Medical Devices

by Neil Bedi, Maryam Jameel and Maya Miller,

Thousands of Patients Were Implanted With Heart Pumps That the FDA Knew Could Be Dangerous

by Neil Bedi,

We Are Releasing the Full Video of Richard Sackler’s Testimony About Purdue Pharma and the Opioid Crisis

by David Armstrong,

Future of Program for Brain-Damaged Children Now Rests With Powerful Florida Official

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

“Don’t You Work With Old People?”: Many Elder-Care Workers Still Refuse to Get COVID-19 Vaccine

by Jenny Deam, Ryan Gabrielson and Bianca Fortis,

To Get a Shot at Justice, They Were Forced to Prove Their Disabled Daughter’s Intelligence

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

Florida Governor Signs Law Reforming Program for Brain-Damaged Infants

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

A Program Promised to Pay for Brain-Damaged Infants’ Care. Then It Sent Families to Medicaid Instead.

by Daniel Chang and Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald,

He Bought Health Insurance for Emergencies. Then He Fell Into a $33,601 Trap.

by Jenny Deam,

Florida Program to Aid Brain-Damaged Infants Publicly Embraces Reforms It Once Fought

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

A Crisis of Undiagnosed Cancers Is Emerging in the Pandemic’s Second Year

by Duaa Eldeib, video by Alex Garcia, special to ProPublica,

Florida Lawmakers Send Lifeline to Families With Brain-Damaged Children

by Daniel Chang and Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald,

Counties at Highest Risk for COVID Harm Often Have Lowest Vaccination Rates

by Ryan Gabrielson,

Parents Want Justice for Birth Injuries. Hospitals Want to Strip Them of the Right to Make That Decision.

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

Florida Lawmakers Endorse Wide-Ranging Reforms in Program to Aid Brain-Damaged Babies

by Carol Marbin Miller, Daniel Chang and Mary Ellen Klas, Miami Herald,

A Tiny Number of People Will Be Hospitalized Despite Being Vaccinated. We Have to Learn Why.

by Caroline Chen,

“We Are Not Here or Funded to ‘Promote the Best Interest’ of the Children,” Wrote the Head of a Program for Brain-Damaged Infants

by Daniel Chang and Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald,

Florida Plans Audit of Program That Blocks Parents of Brain-Damaged Newborns From Suing

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

She Can’t Sue Her Doctor Over Her Baby’s Death. When She Spoke Out, She Was Silenced Again.

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

When Births Go Horribly Wrong, Florida Protects Doctors and Forces Families to Pay the Price

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

The Broken Front Line

by Ava Kofman, photography by Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks, special to ProPublica,

I Received Tips to Look Into How a Hospital Treated Premature Babies. Getting Data Was Nearly Impossible.

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

Cómo investigamos las tasas de mortalidad de los bebés extremadamente prematuros en los hospitales de maternidad más grandes de este estado

por Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

Los dos hospitales tienen tasas de mortalidad infantil similares, hasta que se observa a los bebés extremadamente prematuros

por Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

False Barriers: These Things Should Not Prevent You From Getting a COVID Vaccine

by Caroline Chen and Maryam Jameel,

No One in This State Is Officially Tracking the Quality of Care in Neonatal Centers

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

How We Investigated Death Rates for Extremely Preterm Babies in This State’s Largest Maternity Hospitals

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

The Two Hospitals Have Similar Infant Death Rates — Until You Look at Extremely Premature Babies

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

Texans Recovering From COVID-19 Needed Oxygen. Then the Power Went Out.

by Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, and Perla Trevizo, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune,

How Inequity Gets Built Into America’s Vaccination System

by Maryam Jameel and Caroline Chen,

Mueren en la lista de espera

por David Armstrong y Marshall Allen,

Why We Can’t Make Vaccine Doses Any Faster

by Isaac Arnsdorf and Ryan Gabrielson,

Dying on the Waitlist

by David Armstrong and Marshall Allen,

Cuomo Still Underreporting the Total Count of COVID Nursing Home Deaths

by Joe Sexton,

Fauci: Vaccines for Kids as Young as First Graders Could Be Authorized by September

by Caroline Chen,

Why Opening Restaurants Is Exactly What the Coronavirus Wants Us to Do

Caroline Chen,

An illustration of a hand taking apart a hospital.

Rich Investors Stripped Millions From a Hospital Chain and Want to Leave It Behind. A Tiny State Stands in Their Way.

by Peter Elkind,

Contractor Who Was Awarded $34.5 Million in Government Money and Provided Zero Masks Pleads Guilty to Fraud

by J. David McSwane,

An illustration of a doctor navigating a maze made of $100 dollar bills.

How the CARES Act Forgot America’s Most Vulnerable Hospitals

by Brianna Bailey, The Frontier,

“We’ve Let the Worst Happen”: Reflecting on 400,000 Dead

by Logan Jaffe,

How Many Vaccine Shots Go to Waste? Several States Aren’t Counting.

by Ryan Gabrielson, Caroline Chen and Mollie Simon,

A Woman With Developmental Disabilities Was Abused in Arizona. The State Promised Changes. It Has Not Made Them Yet.

by Amy Silverman for Arizona Daily Star,

How Operation Warp Speed Created Vaccination Chaos

by Caroline Chen, Isaac Arnsdorf and Ryan Gabrielson,