There are few staff to monitor Nebraska’s vast swaths of farmland, thousands of cattle feedlots, large hog operations and chicken farms. And the agencies’ own regulations don’t give the staff many tools to combat malpractice.
Extreme heat days and prolonged heat waves, which will become more frequent in the near future, can create serious health concerns.
A "high touch" approach to building trust, reducing health inequities, and increase diversity in clinical trials for cancer.
ProPublica reporter Duaa Eldeib and oncologist Dr. Kashyap Patel describe the still-unfolding crisis.
A new community survey exposes widespread cancer, asthma, anxiety, and depression in Wilmington, California.
For decades, doctors defaulted to hysterectomy to treat fibroid symptoms. That’s changing as patients push for more awareness and a wider range of treatment options.
Why we know so little about preterm births and what experts want to do about it.
In this episode of Bodies, we look at how Johnson and Johnson used marketing tactics to target women of color. How did normal body odors become stigmatized and racialized?
Stories of J&J’s negligence have been trickling out for decades and gaining traction as people began to sue the multinational company.
This story was produced as part of a larger project led by April Xu, a participant in the USC Center for Health Journalism's 2018 Data Fellowship.
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