Selected Reporting

2020

Democrats Probe White House Over Swaying FDA, CDC on Virus
[Oct. 5, 2020]

CDC Money for Covid Tracking, Tests Has Been Stalled for Months
[Oct. 1, 2020]

Trump Administration Dips Into Protective Gear, CDC Funds to Fund Vaccine Push
[Sept. 23, 2020]

CDC’s Messages to Public Were Slowed by Extensive Reviews
[Sept. 18, 2020]

HHS Steered $700 Million From CDC to Fund Warp Speed Program
[Sept. 16, 2020]

Flu Season Will Be a Test Run for the U.S.’s Biggest-Ever Vaccine Campaign
[Aug. 18, 2020]

CDC Chief Sees Urgency to Cut Covid Rate to Avoid Flu Collision
[Aug. 13, 2020]

In the Fog of Pandemic, Companies Are Embracing Epidemiology
[July 15, 2020]

U.S. Health Care Puts $4 Trillion in All the Wrong Places
[June 11, 2020]

A Race Is On to Recruit Virus Sleuths as States Re-Open
[May 23, 2020]

Tension, Fear Grip U.S. Health Workers With Critical Protective Gear Running Low
[April 1, 2020]

Hospital Workers Make Masks From Office Supplies Amid U.S. Shortage
[March 17, 2020]

Coronavirus Testing Gap Creates Public-Health Chaos Across U.S.
[March 11, 2020]

Some VA Stockpiles of Protective Medical Masks Aren’t Usable
[March 4, 2020]

Podcast: How to Buy A Better Birth
[Jan. 30, 2020]

Podcast: Fixing Health Care for the People It Often Fails
[Jan. 23, 2020]

Podcast: The Patient, The Doctor, and Everything in Between
[Jan. 16, 2020]

Podcast: Yes, the U.S. Health-Care System Is Broken, But It Doesn’t Have to Be
[Jan. 9, 2020]

2019

America’s Largest Health Insurer Is Giving Apartments to Homeless People
[Bloomberg Businessweek, Nov. 5, 2019]

The Mad Rush to Sell Private Medicare Plans to Seniors
[Oct. 9, 2019]

Health Insurance Costs Surpass $20,000 a Year, Hitting a Record
[Sept. 25, 2019]

Health Insurance That Doesn’t Cover the Bills Has Flooded the Market Under Trump
[Bloomberg Businessweek, Sept. 17, 2019]

Colorado’s Ski Towns Could Fix the High Cost of American Health Care
[June 21, 2019]

Podcast: It’s getting harder to keep your health data private. Here’s what you can do about it.
[June 6, 2019]

As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage
[May 16, 2019]

Transgender Queer Eye Guest Tests State Health Insurance Rules
[Jan. 23, 2019]

2018

Millions of Americans Could Face Surprise Emergency Room Bills in January
[Dec. 7, 2018]

Thousands of People’s Insurance Appeals Went to a Doctor Feds Say Is a Fraud
[Oct. 2, 2018]

Priced Out of Health Insurance, Some Americans Rig Their Own Safety Nets
[Aug. 22, 2018]

Sky-High Deductibles Broke the U.S. Health Insurance System
[June 26, 2018]

Air Ambulances Are Flying More Patients than Ever, And Leaving Massive Bills Behind
[June 11, 2018]

Drug Prices Drive Many Americans to Black Market for Medicines
[May 18, 2018]

Why Some Americans Are Risking It And Skipping Health Insurance
[March 26, 2018]

Kentucky’s Medicaid Work Requirement Is an About-Face
[Jan. 18, 2018]

2017

A Hospital Giant Discovers That Collecting Debts Pays Better Than Curing Ills
[Dec. 18, 2017]

The Little Blue Pill: An Oral History of Viagra
[Dec. 11, 2017]

How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Threatens Obamacare
[Nov. 2, 2017]

Trump Slows Efforts to Cut Health Care Costs
[Oct. 5, 2017]

Surviving a Heroin Overdose May Soon Depend on Where You Live
[Sept. 14, 2017]

The FDA’s Consumer Protection Warnings Are Falling Under Trump
[Aug. 28, 2017]

Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions
[Aug. 8, 2017]

With or Without Obamacare, Health-Care Costs Are Battering the Middle Class
[July 27, 2017]

America’s Rich Will Get Richer, Its Poor Poorer With Obamacare Repeal
[July 11, 2017]

How Baking Soda Could Help Fight Deadly Superbugs
[June 27, 2017]

2016

The World is Getting Fatter and No One Knows How to Stop It
[April 6, 2016]

Zika is the Next Front in the Mosquito Wars
[Feb. 4, 2016]

How Red Meat Joined the 478 Other Things that Might Give You Cancer
[Oct. 26, 2015]

2015

This Medical Charity Made $3.3 Billion from a Single Pill
[July 7, 2015]