For years, the FDA told the public that generics are just as safe and effective as brand-name medications. But ProPublica reporters found that this isn’t always true.
Listen to the first episode of “Paper Trail,” our new podcast. Subscribe: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/what-fda-wont-tell-you-generic-drugs-safety?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
America’s stillbirth crisis. A threat in your medicine cabinet. The drying planet.
Here are some ProPublica investigations you may have missed this year.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-investigations-you-may-have-missed-2025?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Journalism #Reporting #Longreads #Healthcare #ClimateChange #Medicine
Tiny footprints. A blue blanket.
The autopsy reports of babies who died after not receiving a vitamin K shot at birth included heartbreaking details about how small the babies were — and what items they had with them when they died.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-baby-autopsy-reports?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #PublicHealth #Medicine #Children #Family #Parenting #Parents
Teaching people how to take care of themselves is the only way to decentralize medicine. #medicine #health #nutrition
https://video.drcassone.com/w/amYNCrzYJY3eLmaT7bez1E
Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You.
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The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures that could make them ineffective or unsafe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-hides-drug-names-contaminated-factories?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Former Veterans Affairs workers: In August, we reported that the VA lost more than 600 doctors and nearly 2,000 nurses this year.
We know that for many of you, the decision to leave the VA could not have been easy. Here’s how you can share your story with us ⤵️
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/help-propublica-report-on-leaving-veterans-affairs
#Health #Medicine #Government #Healthcare #PublicHealth #Journalism
“In my two decades as a reporter, I’ve sat at many kitchen tables with grieving mothers,” ProPublica reporter Megan Rose writes.
“Talking with Holly, though, was the first time I’d done so as a mother myself. Her sorrow hit me differently.”
#Journalism #Media #Mother #Children #Family #Health #FDA #Medicine
My State Banned Vaccine Mandates. Here’s How I Covered It as an Idaho Journalist.
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The Idaho Medical Freedom Act, which makes it illegal to require almost anyone to take a vaccine, test or other “medical intervention,” comes amid a national measles outbreak larger than the U.S. has seen in decades.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-vaccine-mandate-ban-reporter-story?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Journalism #Idaho #Vaccines #Health #Medicine #PublicHealth #Measles
A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
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In North Carolina, a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Ciji Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-abortion-laws-ciji-graham?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Women #Health #Law #NorthCarolina #Abortion #Medicine
Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony
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Dissenting from the court's majority, one judge sounded the alarm about ignoring recanted forensic testimony, saying the medical examiner's reversal "calls into doubt the foundation of the trial."
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-russell-maze-shaken-baby-conviction-appeal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans
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Our reporting has found that abortion bans generally don’t include exceptions that cover health concerns pregnant women with chronic conditions can face — or if they do, doctors aren’t using them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/high-risk-pregnancies-chronic-conditions-abortion-bans?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Women #Health #Abortion #Pregnancy #Healthcare #Law #Medicine
Last month, we released Rx Inspector, a groundbreaking tool that lets you find the factories where your generic drugs were manufactured.
See the never-before-released data that ties everything together.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-generic-drugs-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Health #Medicine #Data #Research #FDA #Drugs #Science #Journalism
Rx Inspector, our free, searchable tool, allows you to look up where your generic prescription drug was made.
From patients and doctors to researchers, it is already reshaping how people make decisions. “This is a godsend,” one professor told us.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-reshaping-decisions-generic-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Research #Data #Science #Medicine #Pharmacy #Journalism #Drugs
New training from a Texas regulator about when doctors can legally terminate a pregnancy comes nearly five years after the state passed its abortion ban in 2021.
Experts contend the guidance can’t capture all complications that arise in pregnancy.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medical-board-abortion-training-doctors?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #Abortion #Women #Health #Healthcare #Medicine #Law
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica built the Rx Inspector tool to show you.
Now a proposed bill would also require manufacturing location information on packaging for both generic and brand-name drugs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/drug-manufacturer-labels-us-senate-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #FDA #Health #Government #Senate #Law #Drugs #Medicine
Emily Waldorf faced a life-threatening miscarriage.
Even after she met the hospital’s CEO, called the governor and hired a lawyer, she couldn’t get care in the country’s “most pro-life state.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/arkansas-abortion-ban-miscarriage-care?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arkansas #Women #Health #Law #Abortion #Medicine #USPolitics
More Than $100 Million Was Billed for Medically Questionable Vascular Procedures, Government Watchdog Finds
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Following a ProPublica investigation, a report found that dozens of doctors routinely performed controversial vascular procedures. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it would look into those physicians’ practices.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vascular-procedures-medicare-inspector-general-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Medicare #Medicaid #Government #Medicine #Health #Healthcare
When insurance coverage for her husband’s lifesaving care was denied, Teressa didn’t stand down. She fought back and won.
She found the secret to winning buried deep in her insurance coverage booklet.
Listen to her story on episode 3 of our podcast, "Paper Trail": https://www.propublica.org/podcast/health-insurance-industry-secret-external-review
#podcast #health #healthcare #insurance #mentalhealth #medicine #podcasts
Overturning a health insurance denial can feel like a maze — one that can seem designed to confuse you so much, you just quit.
But in this episode of “Paper Trail,” we tell you the story of a woman who did the impossible: She found a way out.
#podcast #health #healthcare #insurance #mentalhealth #medicine #podcasts
Senate leaders are urging the Department of Defense to prioritize the purchase of generic drugs manufactured in the U.S., warning that the country’s overreliance on foreign factories poses an “existential risk” to the military.
NEW: Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It also cost nearly $1,000 per pill, even though that same pill cost just 25 cents to make.
Listen to this episode of “Paper Trail” wherever you get your podcasts: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/revlimid-cancer-drugs-fda-healthcare?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Decades after patients first warned Columbia University that one of its doctors sexually abused them, the school is acknowledging a culture of silence that allowed the abuse to continue and some school administrators are finally facing consequences.
#News #Columbia #University #Doctors #Health #Women #Medicine #SexualAbuse #Education #HigherEd
Nevada Regulators Fine Peptide Providers at Anti-Aging Festival Where Two Women Became Critically Ill
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Three individuals, along with the group accused of supplying the peptides, were fined between $5,000 and $10,000 for their involvement in an incident at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival in Las Vegas last summer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/raadfest-peptide-injections-nevada-fines?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
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Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has also constricted the rights of pregnant women.
https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-ordered-c-sections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Women #Health #Florida #Law #Pregnancy #Medicine #Doctors #Courts #Legal
Cherise Doyley never expected to see a judge while in labor.
Yet she found herself fighting a court for the right to make medical decisions about her own body — from her hospital bed. Here’s how her case unfolded.
https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-hearing-c-section?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Women #Health #Florida #Pregnancy #Law #Courts #Medicine
!["If you're ever in a similar fight with your health insurance company [over denied coverage], you might need to know this too." -Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica reporter and "Paper Trail" host. Listen at propublica dot org slash podcast.](/proxy/post_attachment/275243/4d7f119252.jpeg "\"If you're ever in a similar fight with your health insurance company [over denied coverage], you might need to know this too.\" -Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica reporter and \"Paper Trail\" host. Listen at propublica dot org slash podcast.")