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In Churn of Assisted Living Deals, An Island of Misery
by A.C. ThompsonThe one-story beige building on Southwest Hill Road in McMinnville, Ore. – an old mill town between Portland and Salem – has seen plenty of trouble over the years of its operation as...
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How College Pricing Is Like Holiday Retail Sales
by Marian WangYou know all those seemingly great sales during the holidays? It turns out, they are often a “carefully engineered illusion.” A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal defines what it...
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2013: The Year of the Intern?
by Blair Hickman and Casey McDermottSome might say internships received more scrutiny than ever in 2013. Here’s a look back at key developments from our ongoing investigation into unpaid...
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Patient Harm: When An Attorney Won’t Take Your Case
by Marshall Allen and Olga PierceErnie Ciccotelli was trying to do a good deed when he donated a kidney to his brother. But within days of the surgery, his incision was oozing green fluid and his guts...
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In A Major Shift, Medicare Wants Power to Ban Harmful Prescribers
by Tracy Weber and Charles OrnsteinMedicare plans to arm itself with broad new powers to better control — and potentially ban — doctors engaged in fraudulent or harmful prescribing, following a series...
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Amid Abortion Debate, the Pursuit of Science
by Nina MartinFor the last decade or so, Tracy Weitz has been one of the most prominent abortion researchers in the United States. As director of the University of California at San Francisco’s...
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No Warrant, No Problem: How the Government Can Get Your Digital Data
by Theodoric Meyer and Peter Maass
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Ten Patient Stories: When Attorneys Refused My Medical Malpractice Case
by Marshall Allen and Olga PierceAfter surgery on her ankle, Jeanine Thomas suffered a potentially deadly bacterial infection that required seven more operations to save her leg and nearly five years...
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Big Data + Big Pharma = Big Money
by Charles Ornstein Need another reminder of how much drugmakers spend to discover what doctors are prescribing? Look no further than new documents from the leading keeper of such data. IMS Health...
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Guarded Optimism
by Joaquin Sapien Last week, the Justice Department convened hearings under the Prison Rape Elimination Act to examine the prevalence of rape and sexual abuse in the nation’s prisons and juvenile...
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Journalists: Send ProPublica Your Redaction Classics
by Amanda Zamora and Al ShawThe Obama administration’s take on transparency can be rather opaque. Send us your most memorable FOIA documents for our Redaction Classics collection.
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No Easy Definition for ‘Abusive’ Prescribing
by Charles Ornstein and Tracy WeberWhen the agency that runs Medicare announced last week that it would take action against doctors who prescribe abusively in its massive drug program – perhaps...
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Obamacare: A Midterm Report Card
by Charles Ornstein The first half of the Obamacare open enrollment period is over, and yesterday, federal health officials announced sign-up figures from the first three months. After a disastrous...
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Privacy Tools: How to Safely Browse the Web
by Julia AngwinIn the course of writing her book, Dragnet Nation, ProPublica reporter Julia Angwin tried various strategies to protect her privacy. In this blog post, she distills the lessons from her...
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Podcast: The Etan Patz Case
by Nicole Collins BronzanIt was a case that had confounded investigators for three decades, suddenly "solved." But when the police arrested Pedro Hernandez in 2012 and interrogated him about the...
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Over-The-Counter Pills Left Out of FDA Acetaminophen Limits
by Jeff Gerth and T. Christian Miller Earlier this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration urged health care providers to stop writing prescriptions for pain relievers containing more than 325...
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Four Questionable Claims Obama Has Made on NSA Surveillance
by Kara BrandeiskyToday President Obama plans to announce some reportedly limited reforms to National Security Agency surveillance programs.Since the first disclosures based on documents provided by...
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Schumer Calls on Drug Makers to Add Safety Devices to Children’s Medicines...
by Theodoric Meyer and T. Christian MillerSen. Charles E. Schumer is calling on federal regulators to require that all liquid children’s medications be equipped with safety devices called flow...
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Privacy Tools: How to Build Better Passwords
by Julia Angwin In the course of writing my book, Dragnet Nation, I tried various strategies to protect my privacy. In this series of blog posts, I try to distill the lessons from my privacy...
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In California, a Raft of Measures to Improve Conditions and Oversight of...
by A.C. ThompsonCalifornia lawmakers last week unveiled a dozen legislative proposals aimed at stiffening regulations governing the state’s roughly 7,700 assisted living facilities, residences that...
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