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St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporters won the patient protection prize

Learn more about the key role two St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalists played in a new state law giving Missouri's medical board some real power to protect patients.

Hospital dress code could be a test case for tracking infections

Health experts still debate whether wearing hospital scrubs outside the hospital can increase patients' infection risk. Could an Ottawa hospital be the perfect site to investigate that question?

Viewing Public Records Should Be As Easy As Casting Your Vote

Why should journalists or the public have to cite a state or federal law to request public documents produced by a public agency with public money?

Ireland, Which Trained Doctors at Center of Bahrain Clampdown, Now Fights for Them

This week, a delegation from Ireland is expected to meet with officials in Bahrain to lobby them to drop charges against dozens of doctors and nurses who have been arrestedfor treating victims of the government’s crackdown on protesters.

Q&A with Dr. Scott Bickman, Part 3: Lap-Band clinics are money machines for the owners

Where does a doctor who has found himself in trouble go to find work? Weight loss surgery clinics.

Q&A with Dr. Scott Bickman, Part 2: DEA let painkillers go underground and undetected

Dr. Scott Bickman saw first-hand how the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency handled complaints about a painkiller mill running in clinics in Santa Ana and Anaheim Hills. And he asks a good question: why did it take so long for the DEA to shut the clinics down?

 

Q&A with Dr. Scott Bickman: An insider's view of a painkiller mill and a dangerous clinic

A censured doctor gives Antidote an insider’s view of one of the most troubled clinics in California: the Anaheim Hills Surgery Center, a massive painkiller mill and the site of the avoidable death of a plastic surgery patient. 

The Markingson Files: Court leaves key questions in clinical trial suicide unanswered

Any investigative reporter will tell you that a case dismissal does not necessarily mean a victory. Here's how that rule of thumb figures into the case of Dan Markingson, who committed suicide after participating in a clinical trial for the psychiatric drug Seroquel.

Drug document archive puts Paxil in the spotlight

The Drug Industry Document Archive have has some incredible documents on the antidepressant Paxil that provide windows into a previously closed-off world.

The Markingson Files: University of Minnesota dallies on clinical trial documentation

A candid email from a university publicist sheds some, but not enough, light on why the university won't provide documents from a controversial Seroquel clinical study.

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