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Unstoppable: This doctor has been investigated at every level of government. How is he still practicing?

Medical boards, a health department and even federal investigators have scrutinized Dr. James McGuckin’s vascular clinics. Today he still practices, despite a decadelong string of sanctions, fines and lawsuits.

Aug 10, 2023

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Lawmakers propose $45 million in new funding for measures to lower U.S. stillbirth rate

The SHINE for Autumn Act would fund better data collecting on stillbirths and risk factors and the creation of educational awareness materials

Aug 2, 2023

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Oregonians gather outside the Multnomah County Justice Center to protest the June 2022 Supreme Court Decision to overturn Roe V. Wade, ending a nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion. | ALEX BAUMHARDT/OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE

Maternal deaths are expected to rise under abortion bans, but the increase may be hard to measure

It’s clear that abortion bans can make pregnancy more dangerous, but experts say it may take years for maternal mortality data to reveal the toll

Jul 27, 2023

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Merkley, lawmakers reintroduce bill to battle nation’s stillbirth crisis

While other wealthy countries have been able to reduce their stillbirth rates, the U.S. has fallen behind

Jul 13, 2023

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Blocked artery in your leg? Here’s what you should know.

Millions of Americans have peripheral artery disease, a disorder that can narrow arteries and block blood flow to the legs

Jul 6, 2023

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How often do health insurers say no to patients? No one knows.

There’s nowhere that a consumer or an employer can go to look up all insurers’ denial rates — let alone whether a particular company is likely to decline to pay for procedures or drugs that its plans appear to cover

Jun 29, 2023

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Organ transplant patients can die when donors aren’t screened for this parasitic disease

National group considering whether to require additional donor test

Jun 27, 2023

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Scores of critical lab tests fall into a regulatory void. The FDA is trying to close it.

The agency had previously taken a hands-off approach to lab-developed tests — which are designed, manufactured and used by a single lab

Jun 15, 2023

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An image of Dr. Jeffery Dormu appears on an electronic billboard outside the Minimally Invasive Vascular Center, which he founded, in Laurel, Maryland. | SHURAN HUANG/PROPUBLICA

In the “wild west” of outpatient vascular care, doctors can reap huge payments as patients risk life and limb

To move vascular procedures out of expensive hospitals, the government turbocharged payments to doctors’ offices — but started a boom that is making doctors rich and putting patients in danger

May 25, 2023

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Congressional committee, regulators question Cigna system that lets its doctors deny claims without reading patient files

About 80% of the coverage denials appealed by policyholders under Cigna’s Medicare Advantage plans are overturned

May 18, 2023