Health

Hair Salons Still Putting Workers’ Health At Risk with Brazilian Blowout

On March 5, the New York Times reported that Brazilian Blowout, makers of a popular hair straightening service, had agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit for about…

Virginia Sole-SmithMarch 19, 2012

NewsHealth

Washington’s Prescription Epidemic

On January 22, InvestigateWest and a Seattle television station released “The Prescription Epidemic,” a series following almost twenty years of overlooked medical reports…

Hannah MurphyFebruary 15, 2012

InvestigationBusiness, Health, Politics

How the Food Industry Eats Your Kid’s Lunch

A cozy alliance between companies that manufacture processed foods and companies that serve school meals is making students fat and sick.

Lucy KomisarThe New York TimesDecember 3, 2011

InvestigationHealth, Immigration, Politics, World

Haitian Deportees Face Grave Health Risks

The Obama administration deports Haitians even though many will be illegally jailed and exposed to cholera — flouting official policy.

Jacob KushnerFlorida Center for Investigative ReportingNovember 14, 2011

NewsEnvironment, Health

Burned Out

Conclusions in scientific studies can often be discovered not at the end but between the proverbial lines of any given report. Certainly that is the case in the recent Institute of Medicine study, “Long-Term Health…

J. Malcolm GarciaNovember 10, 2011

InvestigationHealth, World

Transforming the Global Health Agenda

Over the past 30 years, public funding for global health has dried up. Private companies have stepped into the breach, with troubling results.

Sonia ShahForeign AffairsNovember 9, 2011

InvestigationBusiness, Health, Politics

Milked

The United States has finally joined a global consensus about the health benefits of breast milk. So why does a federal agency with huge sway over infant nutrition still pay for most of the infant formula sold in the nation?

Molly M. GintyWomensEnewsNovember 7, 2011

NewsEnvironment, Health

EPA program on children’s toxic exposure “flawed”

According to a scathing new critique by the EPA’s inspector general, efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency to protect children’s health have been fatally blocked by American industry’s refusal to submit information on their commercial use of chemicals.

Sheila KaplanJuly 23, 2011

NewsHealth

Are Foster Kids Overmedicated? Tonight on PBS

Antipsychotics are the top-selling class of drugs in the United States, with sales of $14.6 billion in 2009 alone. Their use in children and adolescents in the United States is increasingly prevalent — and children in foster care are among the most likely to be medicated…

Mar CabraJanuary 7, 2011

NewsEnvironment, Health

Lifesaving Drugs a Menace for Health Workers

Pacific Northwest-based investigative unit Investigate West just released a report on the dangers of chemotherapy drugs for American health-care workers.

George WarnerJuly 13, 2010

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Are Foster Kids Overmedicated? Tonight on PBS

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