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Reporter looks at Spokane’s efforts to address disparities
Reporting for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., Shawn Vestal started by observing massive life-span disparities in the city and surrounding…
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N.C. series explains high cost of cancer drugs
As part of an ongoing series on the cost of health care in The Charlotte Observer and The News &…
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Almost 40 years later, fallout from Mich. contamination disaster continues
Four decades after polybrominated biphenyl (PBB), a dense, flame-retardant toxin, was accidentally dumped into a Michigan cattle feed supplement, Detroit…
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Reporter tracks top prescribers’ ties to drugs they prescribe
A while back, Sen. Charles Grassley wrote to state health officials, asking for lists of top Medicaid prescribers of certain…
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Investigation reveals abuses at brain rehab institute
Bloomberg’s David Armstrong has assembled an investigation of a huge Florida center for brain injury rehabilitation with a record of…
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Faced with shortages, paramedics turn to expired drugs
Reporting on how drug shortages are impacting paramedics, The Associated Press’ Jonathan Cooper discovered things had deteriorated to the point…
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Investigation reveals N.Y. lax on home care oversight
In the Albany (N.Y.) Times Union, Matt Drange’s investigation is titled “Home health care in crisis.” Having read the piece,…
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Meth and other drugs overwhelm reservations
New America Media’s Jacob Simas and Two Rivers Tribune‘s Allie Hostler joined forces to examine how the nation’s rural methamphetamine…
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Special, easy-to-get medical credit cards seduce providers, desperate patients
The (Bergen County) Record‘s Lindy Washburn reports on health care professionals who offer specialized credit cards which can cover certain…
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Federal funding of migrant health clinics under fire
Kaiser Health News’ Phil Galewitz spotlights a 50-year-old federal effort to provide health care to migrant farmworkers, one which provides…