by Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber and Dan Nguyen (iStockPhoto) Eight pharmaceutical companies, including the nation’s three largest, doled out more than $220 million last year to promotional speakers for their products, according to a ProPublica…
by Marshall Allen See the slides from Heart Check America’s sales pitch. The procedure would be “non-invasive,” he promised. No needles. “Just lie on a table and hold your breath.” The scans could identify heart…
President Barack Obama signs the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act alongside members of Congress and his administration in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 2010. (Rod Lamkey Jr/AFP/Getty Images) Early last year, as…
A foreclosure sign hangs in front of a home in Richmond, Calif. Many homeowners who have been granted a loan modification to avoid foreclosure find their mortgage company effectively pulls a bait and switch on…
by Marian Wang The E. coli outbreak in Germany—identified by scientists as a new deadly strain of the bacteria—has by now killed at least 17 people and spread to 10 countries [1]. And while it…
by John Sullivan, Special to ProPublica A recent hearing held by the joint investigation board for the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 4, 2011. At the December hearings, New York Times investigative reporter David Barstow…
by Michael Grabell A sign at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint instructs passengers about the use of the full-body scanner at O’Hare International Airport on March 15, 2010 in Chicago, Ill. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) The…
by Charles Ornstein A poster for the Boston Scientific drug-coated stent at a conference in 2006. Boston Scientific is one of the biggest funders of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions. (Thomas S. England/Bloomberg via…
by Marian Wang Image by www.e-magineart.com Nursing homes are unnecessarily administering powerful antipsychotic drugs to many elderly residents, including residents with dementia [1], according to a new report by the Health and Human Services inspector…
by Marian Wang (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) It’s April 21, and another Dodd-Frank deadline has come and gone. Today was the day the Fed’s regulations on debit card transaction fees, also known as interchange fees, were supposed…
By Sheri Fink, Special to ProPublica U.S. officials say the nation’s health system is ill-prepared to cope with a catastrophic release of radiation, despite years of focus on the possibility of a terrorist “dirty bomb”…
Excerpt from Hope Academy Broadway Campus’s lawsuit against White Hat Management. Inset: Screenshot from a White Hat Management promotional video. by Sharona Coutts ProPublica, April 6, 2011, 10:09 a.m.Since 2008, an Ohio-based company, White Hat Management,…
Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) A version of this story was co-publishedwith Fortune. General Electric’s tax department is famous for inventing ways to pay Uncle Sam less. So it should…
by Paul Kiel and Olga Pierce Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Before he took office, President Obama repeatedly promised voters and Democrats in Congress that he’d fight for changes to bankruptcy…
by A.C. Thompson, Mosi Secret, Lowell Bergman and Sandra Bartlett Feb. 1, 2011, 12 a.m. Watch Frontline’s documentary [1] produced in conjunction with this story tonight. (Check local listings. [2]) And listen to NPR’s All…
by Robin Fields ProPublica, Dec. 28, 2010, 9:36 a.m. Valerie Prenkert is haunted each time she thinks of the small Northern California clinic where her mother got dialysis. At the start of a treatment on…
An antelope passes by a natural gas drilling rig south of Pinedale, Wyo. (Douglas C. Pizac/AP file photo) by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, Jan. 25, 2011, 8:34 a.m. The United States is poised to bet its…
by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Jan. 19, 2011, 2:53 p.m. UC Denver (wools/Flickr) The University of Colorado Denver and its affiliated teaching hospitals have launched an overhaul of conflict of interest policies after…
by Marian Wang ProPublica, Jan. 13, 2011, 3:14 p.m. Photo by Andrew Magill [1] We’ve reported extensively on the ties between pharmaceutical companies and the physicians they fund to speak, consult and do research [2]….
by Sasha Chavkin ProPublica A house under foreclosure that is now bank-owned in the Spring Valley area of Las Vegas on Oct. 15, 2010. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) Many foreclosures have been thrown into question [1]…