ProPublica

• How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California California's governor and San Francisco's mayor worked together to act early in confronting the COVID threat. For Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, it was a different story, and 27,000 New Yorkers have died so far.
  ProPublica, May 20, 2020
• How Profit and Incompetence Delayed N95 Masks While People Died at the VA Federal agencies have hired contractors with no experience to find respirators and masks, fueling a black market filled with price gouging and multiple layers of profiteering brokers. One contractor called them 'buccaneers and pirates.'
  ProPublica, May 04, 2020
• Coronavirus Tests Being Fast-Tracked by FDA, but Are They Accurate? 'What good is a test if you don't know it's giving you reliable results?' one expert said. Concerns are mounting that a lack of accurate testing will make it more difficult for America to relax social distancing.
  ProPublica, April 13, 2020
• We Still Don't Know How Many People Are in the Hospital With COVID-19 Many states report COVID-19 hospitalizations differently, and the federal government is way behind on data tracking. Without consistent information, the US won't be able to properly respond as new hot spots emerge.
  ProPublica, April 10, 2020
• Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted, Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate Black people are being infected and dying at higher rates. Here's what Milwaukee is doing about it -- and why governments need to start releasing data on the race of COVID-19 patients.
  ProPublica, April 06, 2020
• The Family Wanted a Do Not Resuscitate Order. The Doctors Didn't. Andy Jurtschenko didn't want to be a burden on his family. After he suffered brain damage during a heart transplant at a New Jersey hospital, his medical team deflected the family's request for a DNR.
  ProPublica, January 02, 2020
• New Analysis Expands on Link Between Pharma Payments, Prescribing Pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors billions of dollars for consulting, promotional talks, meals and more. A new finds that doctors who received payments prescribed more of those drugs.
  ProPublica, December 30, 2019
• Physician Staffing Firm Called Out for Suing Poor Patients For low-income individuals who live paycheck to paycheck, paying even a $400 or $500 bill can be a hardship. When the bills aren't paid, many face lawsuits, collection agencies, and wage garnishment.
  ProPublica, December 02, 2019
• Over 700 Doctors Paid More Than $1 Million by Drug, Medical Device Companies ProPublica has been tracking drug company spending on doctors since 2010. We just updated our database and found that companies are still paying private doctors huge sums for promotional talks and consulting.
  ProPublica, October 18, 2019
• Doctor Who Advocated 'Unethical' Care of Vegetative Patient Is Placed on Leave Newark Beth Israel acted after our report that its transplant program kept a patient alive to improve its metrics, while barely consulting his family.
  ProPublica, October 14, 2019
• Boston Hospital Reports Disciplining of Child Abuse Skeptic Last September, ProPublica examined Dr Michael Holick's work as an expert witness for alleged abusers. His hospital has notified Massachusetts' medical board that it restricted his privileges.
  ProPublica, July 25, 2019
• Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions Health insurers are regarded as fierce defenders of health care dollars. But the case of David Williams shows one reason America's health care costs continue to rise. The personal trainer spent years posing as a doctor and billing the nation's top insurers, making off with millions.
  ProPublica, July 19, 2019
• One Cardiac Arrest. Four 911 Callers. A Tragic Outcome. Rhode Island's 911 operators are unprepared to handle cardiac arrest calls, and Rena Fleury, 45, lost her life.
  ProPublica, June 10, 2019
• University of Illinois Missed Warning Signs of Research Going Awry UIC has played down its shortcomings in overseeing the work of a prominent child psychiatrist, but newly obtained documents show that the school acknowledged its lapses to federal officials.
  ProPublica, April 04, 2019
• Sackler Embraced Plan to Conceal OxyContin's Strength From Doctors Richard Sackler, whose family has reaped billions of dollars from OxyContin, boasted that sales exceeded his 'fondest dreams,' according to a secret court document obtained by ProPublica.
  ProPublica, February 21, 2019
• OxyContin Maker Explored Expansion Into Anti-Addiction Market Secret portions of a lawsuit allege that Purdue Pharma considered capitalizing on the addiction treatment boom — while going to extreme lengths to boost sales of its controversial opioid.
  ProPublica, January 31, 2019
• St. Luke's Replaces President, Other Leaders After Series of Care Lapses Ouster comes 5 months after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services terminated federal funding for heart transplants at the 65-year-old hospital, citing a failure to make needed changes.
  ProPublica, January 18, 2019
• MSK Curbs Executives' Ties to Industry After Conflict-of-Interest Scandals Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center will bar its top executives from serving on corporate boards of drug and healthcare companies that, in some cases, had paid them hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
  ProPublica, January 14, 2019
• Top Doctors Aren't Disclosing Industry Ties in Journal Studies The dean of Yale's medical school, the incoming president of a prominent cancer group, and the head of a Texas cancer center are among those who have not accurately disclosed their ties with drug companies.
  ProPublica, December 10, 2018
• Medical Devices Not Keeping Health Data to Themselves CPAP units, heart monitors, blood glucose meters and lifestyle apps generate information that can be used in ways patients don’t necessarily expect.
  ProPublica, November 28, 2018