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Bud’s Story, from the Records
by Megan McCloskey and Sisi WeiPrivate Arthur ‘Bud’ Kelder died as a POW in the Philippines during World War II. His parents always hoped that his body would eventually be sent home. But despite...
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Podcast: The Winners (and Losers) of College Financial Aid
by Minhee ChoUniversities have become increasingly strategic about how they use their financial aid – often taking comprehensive data that goes well beyond test scores into account – but who they’re...
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Chart: Trauma Hospitals Fail to Screen for Civilian PTSD
by Lois Beckett and Brian JacobsA growing body of research shows injured civilians, particularly those injured as a result of violence, are developing PTSD at rates comparable to veterans of war. But...
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Interview: How You Can Help Find an MIA
by Megan McCloskey There are 45,000 service members missing in action from World War II and other wars who experts say are recoverable. But the Pentagon’s $100 million per year effort to identify them...
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The Perils of Problematic Prescribing: A Double Dose of Warnings
by Charles OrnsteinTwice this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has pointed to the harm caused by aberrant and inappropriate prescribing by physicians.First, the CDC reported Monday...
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A Modern Day ‘Harvest of Shame’
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Doctor Payments on the Decline
by Eric SagaraPharmaceutical company payments to health care professionals dropped between 2011 and 2012 among most of the companies and categories ProPublica tracks, driven in part by increased...
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Podcast: The Military’s Slow and Backward Approach to Identifying MIAs
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }The Pentagon spends roughly $100 million a year to identify service members “missing in action” from World War II, Korea and Vietnam – a noble effort to try...
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Sex, Gender, and the Familiar Fight Over Religious Exemptions
by Nina MartinAs conservatives grapple with the reality of gay marriage and the Supreme Court weighs whether companies should be forced to offer birth control to employees, it's very clear: The...
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Drug Company Agrees to Pay $27.6 Million to Settle Allegations Involving...
by Kara BrandeiskyTeva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has agreed to pay more than $27.6 million to settle state and federal allegations that it induced Chicago psychiatrist Michael Reinstein to...
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Chesapeake Energy’s $5 Billion Shuffle
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Podcast: Reporting on Plane Crashes
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }With the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 dominating the headlines this week, ProPublica Senior Editor Joe Sexton joins...
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High-Cost Lender World Finance Target of Federal Probe
by Paul KielWorld Acceptance Corp., one of the largest high-cost installment lenders in the United States, disclosed today that it is the target of an investigation by the federal Consumer Financial...
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Four Ways to Really Fix the Pentagon’s Effort to ID the Missing
by Megan McCloskey Last week, we wrote about the Pentagon’s floundering efforts to find and identify the 83,000 service members missing from past conflicts - of which the military ID’d just 60 last...
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Who Controls the Kochs’ Political Network? ASMI, SLAH and TOHE
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A Stillborn Child, A Charge of Murder and the Disputed Case Law on ‘Fetal Harm’
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The Price of an Internship
by Blair Hickman , Sisi Wei and Mike TigasUnpaid internships can help young workers advance their career goals. But they can also vary significantly in cost and quality. Explore college internship...
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Ad Endorsing da Vinci Robot Violated U of Illinois Policies, Review Finds
by Charles OrnsteinAn internal review by the University of Illinois has found that an advertisement in which a university surgical team endorsed a pricey surgical robot violated school policies.Though...
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In Healthcare Suit Against Catholic Bishops, the Specter of an Early Defeat
by Nina MartinThe story of Tamesha Means and her miscarriage three years ago, if it happened the way her lawyers claim it did, is truly awful: Means was 18 weeks pregnant when her water broke and she...
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French, Germans Return Fallen GI After Pentagon Gives Up
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