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Trump’s VA Made It Harder for Male Veterans to Get Treatment for Breast Cancer. Lawmakers Want to Fix That.

by Eric Umansky

November 6, 2025, 4:30 am EST
Senators Propose Sweeping Changes to Generic Drug Oversight

by Debbie Cenziper and Megan Rose, ProPublica, and Melissa Dai, Medill Investigative Lab

October 27, 2025, 3:30 pm EDT
NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate

by Duaa Eldeib

September 25, 2025, 10:30 am EDT

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Trump’s VA Made It Harder for Male Veterans to Get Treatment for Breast Cancer. Lawmakers Want to Fix That.

by Eric Umansky

November 6, 2025, 4:30 am EST
Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules

by Eli Hager

October 31, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage

by Eric Umansky

October 29, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
My State Banned Vaccine Mandates. Here’s How I Covered It as an Idaho Journalist.

by Audrey Dutton

October 28, 2025, 1:55 pm EDT
Senators Propose Sweeping Changes to Generic Drug Oversight

by Debbie Cenziper and Megan Rose, ProPublica, and Melissa Dai, Medill Investigative Lab

October 27, 2025, 3:30 pm EDT
Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You.

by Debbie Cenziper and Megan Rose

October 23, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Here’s What Happened When ProPublica Reporters Tried to Find Out Where a Popular Prescription Drug Was Made

by Debbie Cenziper and Megan Rose

October 23, 2025, 4:55 am EDT
Why Did You Leave the Department of Veterans Affairs?

by Vernal Coleman, Topher Sanders and Maryam Jameel

October 22, 2025, 2:45 pm EDT
Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.

by Audrey Dutton

October 20, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
On the Front Line of the Fluoride Wars, Debate Over Drinking Water Treatment Turns Raucous

by Anna Clark

October 13, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

by Duaa Eldeib

October 7, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Failed Root Canals, Lost Implants: How a Utah Dentist Accused of Substandard Care Was Allowed to Keep Practicing

by Jessica Schreifels, The Salt Lake Tribune

September 26, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate

by Duaa Eldeib

September 25, 2025, 10:30 am EDT
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says

by Margaret Coker, The Current

September 24, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.

by Eli Cahan for ProPublica

September 23, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.

by Eli Cahan for ProPublica

September 22, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
“Unacceptable”: Prominent U.S. Senators Demand FDA Provide Names of Troubled Foreign Drugmakers Skirting Import Bans

by Debbie Cenziper and Megan Rose, ProPublica, and Katherine Dailey, Medill Investigative Lab

September 19, 2025, 2:45 pm EDT
Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started

by Anna Clark

September 18, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope

by Duaa Eldeib, photography by Sarah Blesener for ProPublica

September 10, 2025, 6:30 am EDT
Idaho’s Coroner System Is “Broken and a Joke.” Here Are 5 Ideas From Coroners on How to Fix It.

by Audrey Dutton

August 26, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies

by Brandon Roberts, Annie Waldman and Pratheek Rebala, illustrations by Sam Green for ProPublica

August 21, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
How We Tracked Workforce Reductions at Federal Health Agencies

by Pratheek Rebala, Annie Waldman and Brandon Roberts

August 21, 2025, 4:55 am EDT
RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.

by Sharon Lerner

August 20, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Trump’s Rollback of Rules for Mental Health Coverage Could Lead More Americans to Go Without Care

by Maya Miller and Jeremy Kohler

August 18, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.

by Debbie Cenziper and Megan Rose, ProPublica, and Katherine Dailey, Medill Investigative Lab

August 12, 2025, 5:05 am EDT
A Giant Indian Drugmaker Failed to Fix Safety Breaches. The FDA Let It Off the Hook Again and Again.

by Megan Rose and Debbie Cenziper

August 12, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals

by David Armstrong, Eric Umansky and Vernal Coleman

August 8, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
“We Want to Save This Investment”: Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out

by Cassandra Jaramillo

August 8, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives.

by Anjeanette Damon

July 29, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
The FDA Is Cracking Down on an Indian Drugmaker Investigated by ProPublica Last Year

by Patricia Callahan

July 28, 2025, 7:00 am EDT
RFK Jr. Wants to Change a Program That Stopped Vaccine Makers From Leaving the U.S. Market. They Could Flee Again.

by Patricia Callahan

July 17, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
FDA Inspectors Again Find Dangerous Breakdowns at an Indian Factory Supplying Medications to U.S. Consumers

by Megan Rose and Debbie Cenziper

July 16, 2025, 1:45 pm EDT
He Was Accused of Killing His Wife. Idaho’s Coroner System Let Clues Vanish After a Previous Wife’s Death.

by Audrey Dutton

July 16, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Texas Overhauls Anti-Abortion Program That Spent Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars With Little Oversight

by Cassandra Jaramillo and Jeremy Kohler

July 10, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
FDA Layoffs Could Compromise Safety of Medications Made at Foreign Factories, Inspectors Say

by Victoria Malis, Katherine Dailey and Sadie Leite, Medill Investigative Lab, and Debbie Cenziper and Megan Rose, ProPublica

July 7, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

by Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Andrea Suozzo

July 1, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.

by Andrea Suozzo, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

July 1, 2025, 4:55 am EDT
Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.

by Margaret Coker, The Current

June 26, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Seven Things to Know About ProPublica’s Investigation of the FDA’s Secret Gamble on Generic Drugs

by Debbie Cenziper, Megan Rose, Brandon Roberts and Irena Hwang

June 23, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
His Kidney Failed. He’ll Never Know if a Transplant Drug From a Banned Factory Was to Blame.

by Debbie Cenziper and Megan Rose

June 23, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
ProPublica Sued the FDA for Withholding Records About the Safety of Generic Drugs

by Katherine Dailey and Jessie Nguyen, Medill Investigative Lab

June 18, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs

by Debbie Cenziper, Megan Rose, Brandon Roberts and Irena Hwang

June 17, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
We Spent a Year Investigating How the FDA Let Risky Drugs Into the U.S. Market

by Brandon Roberts, Debbie Cenziper, Megan Rose and Irena Hwang

June 17, 2025, 4:55 am EDT
Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding

by Annie Waldman, Asia Fields and Ashley Clarke, design by Zisiga Mukulu, and photography by Bethany Mollenkof

June 12, 2025, 7:00 am EDT
He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame.

by Max Blau

June 2, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
He Became the Face of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement. Now He’s Fed Up With It.

by Margaret Coker, The Current

May 14, 2025, 5:05 am EDT
The Firm Running Georgia’s Struggling Medicaid Experiment Was Also Paid Millions to Sell It to the Public

by Margaret Coker, The Current

May 14, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Why Do Americans Pay More for Prescription Drugs?

by David Armstrong

May 9, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Democratic Lawmakers Blast Trump Administration’s VA Cuts After ProPublica Investigation

by Vernal Coleman and Eric Umansky

May 8, 2025, 6:50 pm EDT
The Price of Remission

by David Armstrong

May 8, 2025, 5:00 am EDT

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