Philips received the first complaints of degraded sound abatement foam in its respiratory devices in 2010, but 11 years passed before it turned into a major recall, according to a ProPublica and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigation published today. According to ProPublica, Philips withheld the vast majority of the warnings about black particles, dirt, dust and other […]
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Health data breaches sow confusion, frustration
Julie Grimley initially assumed the Anthem breach wouldn’t affect her because her family had coverage through CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. Then she got letters informing her that her data, along with that of her husband and 15-year-old daughter, might have been compromised. (David Baratz/USA Today)
Mark Cuban’s advice a ‘recipe for making all of us sick,’ expert says
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By Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
This story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog.
Despite wave of data breaches, official says patient privacy isn’t dead
Jocelyn Samuels, director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights, speaks at a 2013 press conference while serving as acting Assistant Atorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department. (Kris Connor/Getty Images)
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
Alleged patient safety kickbacks lead to $1 million settlement
Dr. Chuck Denham giving a keynote address to the Cleveland Clinic in 2011. (SafetyLeaders/Flickr)
by Marshall Allen, ProPublica
Fines remain rare even as health data breaches multiply
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by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
This story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog.
Unapproved, but used in surgery
by Marshall Allen and Olga Pierce, ProPublica
This story was co-published with the New York Times.
Carla Muss-Jacobs didn’t give much thought to the tools her surgeon would use to replace her knee. Like most patients, she just wanted to feel better and trusted that any devices in the operating room would be safe.
U.S. bishops take aim at sterilization
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, shown in New Orleans in June, voted in November to tighten its rules on partnerships and collaborations between Catholic and non-Catholic health care providers. (Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)
by Nina Martin, ProPublica
Patient Safety Journal adjusts after an eye-opening scandal
Dr. Chuck Denham delivers a keynote address to the Cleveland Clinic in 2011. Denham, once a golden figure in the burgeoning patient safety movement, has faced kickback allegations and now a review of articles he wrote for the Journal of Patient Safety. (SafetyLeaders/Flickr)
by Marshall Allen, ProPublica
Dollars for Dudes: Almost no women among medical industry’s top-paid speakers, consultants
Alison Tendler, an ophthalmologist who works in Sioux Falls, S.D., is among the few women on a list of the doctors paid the most money by drug companies last year. That’s primarily because she serves as the TV advertising spokeswoman for the eye drug Restasis.
$1.1 billion in drug, device payments to doctors not included in new federal database
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by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
The federal government’s new database of drug and device industry payments to doctors is even more incomplete than has been reported previously.
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