A review of internal records and interviews with a dozen current and former health department staff show what expertise it possesses has long been muzzled or ignored.
By Malea Martin
It's easy to feel trapped by the feeling that you need to see a story through simply because you’ve already invested significant time on it.
By Yanqi Xu
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.
By Ariel Hart
Ariel Hart’s reporting on gaps in medical services in Georgia was undertaken as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism 2022 National Fellowship....
By Ariel Hart
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens says Wellstar Health System received purchase offers for its Atlanta Medical Center property, and had it valued prior to publicly announcing the hospital’s closure.
By David Barer
New details revealed about a fatal incident within Texas’ understaffed state hospital system, where little information is made public about patients — even when they die.
A win for Medicaid expansion in South Dakota is a victory for public health, policy experts say, but now comes the work of ensuring the people who are eligible actually get enrolled.
By Amber Dance
A Republican-controlled House could have big consequences for America’s ongoing battle against COVID.
“It’s not the type of health crisis that you’re going to have neighbors come over and bring a casserole,” one advocate said.
By Meera Kymal
Nisha thought that violence in a marriage was simply what every Indian wife ‘had to accept’ in her husband’s home. She was only 24.
South Carolina officials told Brandie Makrin that something traumatic had to happen to her 21-year-old autistic son before he could get the help he needed.
