Health

Chicago Trib nursing home exposé

Thanks to our friends at Pro Publica for highlighting a great investigation by The Chicago Tribune into the Illinois practice of nursing homes mixing their populations of mentally ill felons with the elderly…

Jayati VoraFebruary 1, 2010

InvestigationBusiness, Health

Is Your Cell Phone Hazardous to Your Health?

Ever worry that that gadget you spend hours holding next to your head might be damaging your brain? Well, the evidence is starting to pour in, and it’s not pretty.

Christopher KetchamGQJanuary 26, 2010

InvestigationHealth, Politics

Sick Joke

Multimillionaire Rick Scott is behind an aggressive campaign to derail health care reform. But his chain of Florida clinics, Solantic, faces a wrongful death suit and charges of racial discrimination.

Tristram KortenFolio Weekly (Florida)November 24, 2009

InvestigationEnvironment, Health, Politics

Northern Exposure

Sarah Palin promised to advocate for special-needs children once elected, but in Alaska she has refused to limit toxins that cause fetal abnormalities.

Sheila Kaplan & Marilyn Berlin SnellNew RepublicOctober 28, 2008

InvestigationEnvironment, Health, Politics

Toxic Trailers Redux: When Did FEMA Know?

Internal documents show OSHA detected dangerous levels of formaldehyde in trailers used to house Katrina evacuees as early as 2005 but FEMA distributed them anyway.

Deepa FernandesMother JonesMarch 25, 2008

InvestigationEnvironment, Health, Politics

Silencing the Scientist

A whistleblower at the federal Centers for Disease Control tried to sound the alarm about toxic formaldehyde in FEMA trailers – but faced retaliation instead.

Sheila KaplanDan Rather ReportsMarch 4, 2008

InvestigationBusiness, Health, Labor

The High Price of Beauty

Cheap beauty products are making Americans sick. How an epidemic is plaguing poorly paid workers at nail salons – while the FDA does nothing.

Virginia Sole-SmithThe NationOctober 8, 2007

InvestigationHealth, Immigration, Labor

Hard Labor

The organic food industry, which prides itself on a gentler approach to land and the people who work it, is little different in its shabby treatment of a low-paid immigrant workforce.

Felicia MelloThe NationAugust 24, 2006

InvestigationHealth, Politics

A Death in McAllen

As Medicaid payments to nursing homes stagnate, regulation is weakened, and a Texas law capping damages for pain and suffering in all medical malpractice suits is enacted, the death of Noe Martinez Sr. reveals a coming crisis in the nursing home industry.

Dave MannThe Texas ObserverSeptember 22, 2005

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