Babies bleed to death as parents reject vitamin injection given at birth
Report Highlights An essential cliché: Vitamin K injections, which help blood to clot, are one of three key interventions for ...
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‘Punch in the gut’: After years of waiting, many opioid victims will be excluded from Purdue settlement
Mary Jannotta cut meat and cheese behind the deli counters of Acme and Pathmark supermarkets in suburban Philadelphia for decades, ...
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Texas Medical Board sanctions three doctors for delayed care that led to the deaths of two pregnant women
The Texas Medical Board has sanctioned three doctors that ProPublica previously investigated whose patients died after receiving delayed or inappropriate ...
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RFK Jr. could overturn a peptide ban he calls ‘illegal’. Former FDA officials say he misinterpreted their work.
Just under three years ago, the Food and Drug Administration deemed 19 peptide drugs too dangerous for distribution by compounding ...
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A nursing home owner won a pardon from Trump. The families of his patients got nothing.
Report Highlights Another pardon from Trump: Nursing home operator Joseph Schwartz was convicted of a $39 million fraud, but President ...
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An OB-GYN has been repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct. The state medical board let him continue practicing.
Report Highlights The complaints come: Four patients complained to the Washington Medical Board about Dr. Mark Mulholland from 2022 to ...
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine program risks a resurgence of deadly scourges among children
Report Highlights Sow doubt, risk supply: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sowing doubt about vaccine safety and considering ...
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South Carolina hospitals are not required to disclose measles-related admissions. This leaves doctors in the dark.
Report Highlights No reporting required: South Carolina does not require hospitals to report when admitting patients with measles-related illnesses. Low ...
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New Wisconsin Moms to Get Lifeline Benefits Extended After GOP Resistance Ends Powerbroker
For years, the powerful speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly refused to allow a bipartisan bill to come to a vote ...
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‘A Godsend’: ProPublica’s Rx Inspector Tool Helps People Find Critical Generic Drug Safety Information
The calls came in over the course of a single month in 2004, with patient after patient presenting strikingly similar ...
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