What’s in a name? Ghostly spirits stalk the medical literature
In an age of distortion, propaganda and fake news, medical literature might seem to be a safe space for honest scientific inquiry, with no room for bias or spin. It isn’t so.
The pharmacy, the pills and the crisis
Walgreens dominated the nation’s retail opioid market from 2006 through 2012, buying about 13 billion pills — 3 billion more than its closest competitor.
Toyota settlements in sudden acceleration cases echo previous safety scandals
This story was produced by FairWarning, a nonprofit news organization based in Southern California that focuses on public health, consumer and environmental issues. On the last day of 2015, Berta Orellana picked up her 7-year-old grandson from day care in a brand new Toyota and headed on a road trip with the boy and two …
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The Opioids Deal
Inside the plaintiffs’ war room, bleary-eyed, caffeinated lawyers worked on what would be one of the most important cases of their careers — the first bellwether trial in the national opioid litigation against the country’s biggest drug companies.
Americans increasingly concerned with one-sided news stories
Many Americans are concerned with stories on social media that provide only one side of an issue or are inaccurate, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. Half of the 5,107 adults interviewed for the study considered one-sided news and inaccurate news to be “very big problems,” while one third of indicated …
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Bugs, mold and unwashed hands: ‘Horrible’ nursing home kitchens endanger the elderly, advocates say
While allegations of elder abuse and neglect dominate the horror stories in long-term care settings, food handling remains a consistent and often overlooked hazard, FairWarning found in a five-month investigation.
Bug smuggling is big business
Demand for exotic pets and collectors’ items drives a flourishing illegal trade in beetles, spiders, and more.
Inside the drug industry’s plan to defeat the DEA
Newly unsealed documents in a landmark civil case in Cleveland provide clues to one of the most enduring mysteries of the opioid epidemic: How were drug companies able to weaken the federal government’s most powerful enforcement weapon at the height of the crisis? The industry enlisted members of Congress to limit the powers of the …
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Trend in health workers falling victim to opioids
It’s been more than a year since Iyisha Keller was found unconscious in a bathroom at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Clements hospital in Dallas, a syringe labeled fentanyl in her arm. Keller, 36, had been working in the neonatal intensive care unit. She was pronounced dead in the emergency room.
‘Growing hostility’ between student media and administrators
Censorship of student media is pervasive across the United States, despite the lack of substantial qualitative data to confirm a recent uptick in cases, media scholars and researchers say. Interviews with student journalists, media advisers and media law researchers found that they’ve been censored or have witnessed student media censorship either as a bystander or …
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