Elon Musk’s net worth fluctuates around $220 billion — more than the GDP of over 130 countries. But what if that wealth did more than fund rockets and cars? Here are 10 ways a person of his wealth could change the world and cement a lasting legacy. 🧵
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An Indian Drugmaker, Investigated by ProPublica Last Year, Has Recalled Two Dozen Medications Sold to U.S. Patients
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FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs. Another medication made there has been tied to deaths of U.S. patients.
https://www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-recalls-two-dozen-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #FDA #Pharma #Regulation #Recall #Consumer #Safety #Health
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
#News #Trump #DOGE #Data #Climate #Health #Environment #Immigration #Science #Education
The #healthcare plan already funded by the Public has been scuttled with NO replacement. The tax credits to states - also already paid for by the Public - funding hundreds of me marketplace programs that provide #health & #medical services to tens of thousands of people, were taken and given away by #Congress - largely by donors to the Senate Minority Leader and House Speaker, with a few vague promises to negotiate some scraps back, all now evidently broken. At the end of 2025 the so-called Private #Insurance Industry was greenlighted massive increases to premiums and the associated payments of co-insurance & deductibles. The 2026 budget will scrap virtually all of #Medicaid and most of #Medicare right after this year's midterm #elections. Particularly in rural areas, upward of 40% of hospital revenues come from Medicaid reimbursements which will abruptly cease. HUNDREDS OF HOSPITALS NATIONWIDE are likely to shut down and, in some areas, nearly all will sharply reduce critical services like primary care, emergency rooms, OB/GYN, pharmacy, dialysis, and pediatrics. Many of these particular services will be consolidated to other #hospitals far away with no transportation provided. Thousands will die, tens of thousands will be impoverished, as a direct result. A national #economic failure is more than merely likely. And without good cause; only to crush the Public and to transfer away the remains of its #wealth - our #savings, our #investments - for #redistribution to the untaxed parasites who create nothing, to further ensure that their next six generations will be exempted from the Social Compact.
TrumpRx Denounced as Corrupt Scheme to Line Pockets of Big Pharma—and Don Jr.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trumprx-prescription-drugs
> "Trump has dressed up yet another corporate giveaway as a boon to #patients," said one watchdog. "Real drug price reform doesn’t look like a website."
The Glenmark drug recalls cover a wide range of commonly prescribed medicines — including ones that treat epilepsy, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, heart disease and high blood pressure.
Check the full list:
https://www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-recalls-two-dozen-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #FDA #Pharma #Regulation #Medicine #Health #Consumer #Safety
Whooping cough (pertussis) cases have skyrocketed by more than 1,500% nationwide since 2021.
Deaths tied to the disease are also up — hitting 10 last year, compared with about two to four in previous years — and cases are on track to exceed that total in 2025.
#News #PublicHealth #WhoopingCough #Vaccines #Disease #Health #RFKJr #Trump
When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future.
Trump laid off nearly all of them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cuts-firefighter-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
📽️ WATCH: The most powerful institution in Albany, Georgia, is its hospital: Phoebe Putney Memorial. Yet for decades, the city’s residents have suffered some of the nation’s worst health disparities.
“Sick in a Hospital Town,” our new 5-part series, drops tomorrow, Dec. 7.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvl7TOp7aXk
#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Hospital #Documentary #Journalism #Investigation
New Law Increases Oversight of Arizona Sober Living Homes
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The legislation follows a ProPublica and Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting investigation on a $2 billion Medicaid fraud scheme that targeted Native Americans seeking drug and alcohol treatment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-sober-living-homes-oversight-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arizona #Native #Indigenous #Law #Medicaid #Fraud #Health #Addiction
In Part 2 of “Sick in a Hospital Town,” we look at how a century-old community hospital in Albany, Georgia, became the only hospital in town — and grew into a sprawling health care system by waging a yearslong battle to eliminate its competition.
https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-two/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Business #History #BlackHistory #Journalism
NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues the question:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here: https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-one/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Journalism #Hospital #Poverty #COVID
These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills.
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Federally funded community health centers receive grants in exchange for serving patients regardless of their ability to pay. But ProPublica found at least five across the country filing lawsuits and garnishing paychecks to collect unpaid bills.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federally-qualified-health-centers-unpaid-bills-lawsuits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
“We had soiled beds, waiting rooms with holes in the chairs, mounting sepsis issues and had just laid off 200 qualified nurses,” a former Phoebe executive recalled, “but we had a new logo.”
Read Part 3 of our "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:
https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-three/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Georgia #Hospital #Health #Healthcare #Poverty #COVID #Journalism
A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives.
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Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. They both received peptide injections, an alternative therapy promoted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a way to fight aging and chronic disease.
https://www.propublica.org/article/peptide-injections-raadfest-rfk-jr?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
For more than a century, a smelter spewed lead dust over Omaha.
For decades, the government cleaned it up.
But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-superfund-epa-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Nebraska #Environment #Health #PublicHealth #Safety #Family
When a well-off, widely respected pillar of the community and member of the hospital’s board can’t get the care he needs at the town’s only hospital, it raises the question: Who can?
https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-five/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Completed the Starfleet Academy and Milan Winter Olympics Strava challenges!
Am I now a Starfleet Cadet and an athlete representing the Philippines? 🖖🏽🏃🏽
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier.
The Preventing Maternal Deaths Act pumped tens of millions of dollars a year into a program to help fund state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes.
It’s now at risk of being cut.
https://www.propublica.org/article/maternal-mortality-erase-mm-funding-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
New research suggests that theobromine, a natural compound found in dark chocolate, may be linked to slower biological ageing. It is early days, but it is encouraging to see that everyday foods continue to offer intriguing clues about healthier and longer lives. A small reason to enjoy dark chocolate with a bit more appreciation.
#science #health #longevity #ageing
https://scitechdaily.com/dark-chocolate-compound-linked-to-slower-aging/
The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds
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Lawmakers requested the report after a 2023 ProPublica and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigation revealed that the FDA had received hundreds of complaints over many years about defective breathing machines and never ordered a recall.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-defective-device-recalls-gao-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Again and again, the FDA tolerated substandard manufacturing at a Sun Pharma factory after the company promised to make changes, according to documents obtained by ProPublica. The medications kept flowing to the U.S. market.
The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insurers’ equal treatment of mental and physical health.
#News #MentalHealth #Insurance #Health #Trump #Biden #Government
Sen. Ron Johnson Endorses Book Touting Chlorine Dioxide's Unproven Health Benefits
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Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. “It is all lunacy," one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ron-johnson-wisconsin-chlorine-dioxide-pierre-kory-endorsement?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Wisconsin #Health #Misinformation #Congress #Senate #USPolitics
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
They finally got their wish.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-formaldehyde-risk-assessment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Environment #PublicHealth #Health #Cancer #Government #Regulation