ProPublica

• 'The Human Psyche Was Not Built for This' This is a story about what can happen when politics trump public health.
  ProPublica, September 06, 2022
• Minnesota Set to Become 'Abortion Access Island' in the Midwest Out-of-staters have long traveled to Minnesota for abortions, but as neighboring states restrict access to the procedure, data suggest patients of color may not make the trip.
  ProPublica, August 25, 2022
• How Misinformation About COVID Vaccines and Pregnancy Took Root Before coronavirus vaccines were even released, a disinformation campaign used a moment of national and personal vulnerability to prey on those who were pregnant or who planned to become pregnant.
  ProPublica, August 05, 2022
• New York Polio Case Now Connected to Virus Found in UK and Israel Using sewage sample tests from three countries separated by thousands of miles, public health officials hope to unravel the mystery of where this polio started circulating and what threat it poses.
  ProPublica, August 01, 2022
• Ex-Husband Suing Clinic Over the Abortion She Had 4 Years Ago Nearly 4 years after a woman ended an unwanted pregnancy with abortion pills obtained at a Phoenix clinic, she finds herself mired in an ongoing lawsuit over that decision.
  ProPublica, July 15, 2022
• The COVID Testing Company That Missed 96% of Cases Officials across Nevada signed agreements with Northshore Clinical Labs, a COVID testing laboratory run by men with local political connections. There was only one problem: Its tests didn't work.
  ProPublica, May 16, 2022
• Post-Roe America: More Births While Maternal Mortality Rises The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among wealthy countries. And it may get worse as abortions become more difficult to obtain, say public health experts.
  ProPublica, May 04, 2022
• What's Holding Up the COVID Vaccines for Children Under 5? Opaque communication from the FDA, shifting timelines, delays and misinformation have left parents frustrated and confused.
  ProPublica, March 03, 2022
• Medical Device Didn't Meet Federal Standards. Gov't Bought More. For years after federal inspectors found serious problems with the HeartWare heart pump, agencies like the VA and CMS continued paying to implant it in patients.
  ProPublica, January 07, 2022
• I Saw Firsthand What It Takes to Keep COVID Out of Hong Kong On a visit to Hong Kong, ProPublica reporter Caroline Chen encountered a 21-day quarantine, a bevy of COVID tests, universal masking, and, finally, a fear-free family holiday.
  ProPublica, January 06, 2022
• St. Jude Hoards Billions While Its Families Drain Their Savings The cost of having a child at the hospital for cancer care leaves some families so strapped for money that parents share tips on spending nights in the parking lot.
  ProPublica, November 12, 2021
• How Genomic Sequencing Data Tracked a Salmonella Outbreak Data on bacterial DNA helped reveal how a once-rare salmonella strain spread through the chicken industry. Salmonella infantis is multidrug-resistant and is still making people sick.
  ProPublica, November 05, 2021
• Babies Are Dying of Syphilis. It's 100% Preventable. The United States' inability to curb a treatable sexually transmitted disease shows the failures of a cash-strapped public health system. Increasingly, newborns are paying the price.
  ProPublica, November 01, 2021
• Where Did Government's Billions to Schools for COVID Relief Go? The Education Department's limited tracking of $190 billion in pandemic support funds sent to schools has left officials in the dark about how effective the aid has been in helping students.
  ProPublica, October 21, 2021
• How One District's First 4 Weeks of School Went Bad In their own words, parents, faculty, and a student chronicle the beginning of the school year in Georgia's Cobb County, where leadership loosened COVID-19 protocols and a wave of children were infected.
  ProPublica, October 06, 2021
• A Boy in a COVID-Swamped ER Waited for Hours; His Appendix Burst Non-COVID patients are paying a price as the Delta variant and low vaccination rates overwhelm hospitals across the country. "Wait times can now be measured in days," said an expert.
  ProPublica, September 15, 2021
• Only a Fraction of Breakthrough Infections as Cases Surge A May 1 decision by the CDC to only track breakthrough infections that lead to hospitalization or death has left the nation with a muddled understanding of COVID-19's impact on the vaccinated.
  ProPublica, August 20, 2021
• The FDA Knew the Heart Pumps Could Be Unsafe, Yet They Were Used Inspectors repeatedly found manufacturing and device quality problems with the HeartWare heart pump. The FDA did not penalize the company, and the device was implanted without patients knowing the facts.
  ProPublica, August 05, 2021
• Hospitals Sued Patients Over Medical Debt Through the Pandemic A new study says some of the nation's largest hospital systems kept filing lawsuits, liens, and garnishments during the pandemic -- and most were nonprofit.
  ProPublica, June 15, 2021
• Investigating Decades of Untested Rape Kits A reporter goes behind the scenes of her serialized investigation into the outrage and promise of untested DNA from rape victims.
  ProPublica, June 03, 2021