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The State of our Maternal Health
In California, the health of pregnant women has been getting worse over the years and the maternal death rate is even worse that Bosnia's. The story investigated the causes behind what is making women sicker. One finding included showing that women in California are at a greater risk of having a cesarean surgery at for-profit hospitals where there is a financial incentive to perform this procedure.
Tags: pregnant; pregnancy; cesarean; hospital; maternal; maternal death
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Behind the Label
This documentary exposes an unregulated system that financially rewards the overmedication of children with antipsychotic drugs. "Some states, doctors, agencies and even certain foster parents profit at the expense of children's health - driven by complicated state funding formulas and the influence of the pharmaceutical industry."
Tags: children; pharmaceuticals; antipsychotic drugs; prescriptions; adolescents; Medicaid;
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Atalissa
For three decades a dozen mentally disabled men have been living together. Their living conditions were nowhere near ideal; they lived in a run-down bunkhouse and worked full-time in a turkey processing plant. They normally made about “$65 a month”, but sometimes received as “little as 40 cents an hour”. The series revealed possible “human trafficking, abuse and neglect, and financial exploitation of the mentally disabled”.
Tags: Henry's Turkey Service; US Department of Labor; health inspectors; mistreatment; West Liberty Foods; Muscatine County
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Agent Orange: A Lethal Legacy
This investigation reveals the high costs and consequences of herbicides, such as Agent Orange, used by the US military during the Vietnam War. Not only are the veterans suffering from the consequences of herbicides, but also the children of these veterans. These children suffer from multiple cancers, birth defects, and other conditions. The conditions have increased the financial compensation for the US veterans and their families. Furthermore, the US government has neglected to discover the impact of these herbicides on health and environmental conditions.
Tags: US military; Vietnam War; US government; government; health; birth defects; defoliants; financial compensation; disability; veterans; families; US Department of Veterans Affairs
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Banktracker
Banktracker is a project built to assess the financial health of every bank and credit union in the United States, and to disclose the information. The Troubled Asset Ratio serves as a measurement for bank safety.
Tags: banks; credit unions; safety; troubled assets; United States; financial health; benchmark; banktracker;
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Inhumanity Has a Price
This story examined the human and financial costs of jail conditions in the fourth largest U.S. country. It quantified the costs of those conditions by comparing statistical data about the jail to statistics from similar-sized jails in the country. The story found that the custodian of this jail has been sued thousands of times more than the custodian of larger jails, that the combined cost to defend, settle and insure against these lawsuits was $41.4 million, that the country has not implemented changes recommended by national experts, and that the county's Environmental Services inspectors have documented environmental health concerns in the jails.
Tags: jail costs; county jail; corruption; justice system; health concerns; prison conditions
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Stem Cell, Contraception Groups paid Huck
Financial disclosure statements from Mike Huckabee show he accepted thousands of dollars from public health groups advocating causes considered anathema to the conservative activists whose support he used to gain momentum for the 2008 Presidential candidacy.
Tags: Speaking fees; Novo Nordisk; Public Health Institute; Grant Makers in Health; GOP; morning-after pill;
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The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences
Layoffs have become a fact of American life. When faced with financial issues, companies simply cut workforce, to the tune of at least 30 million adult, full-time workers having been laid off since the early 1980s. But what is the psychological effect, not only of periods of unemployment, but also of the layoff itself? Author Louis Uchitelle examines the damage to self esteem and mental health such situations cause to their victims.
Tags: Layoffs; corporate downsizing; mental health, unemployment; low self-esteem
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The Entrepreneurial Dealings of Physicians
The reporter investigated entrepreneurial dealings of physicians and its consequences for patients and the health care system.
Tags: physicians; health care; financial ties; FDA; medical inventions; entrepreneurial doctors; Securities and Exchange Commission
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Brother's Keeper - West Virginia's Mental Health Crisis
The author exposed the bungling and fraud that led Federal officials to slash funding for West Virginia's mentally ill by more than one-third in 2001. He also revealed the consequences: twice as many people committed to state hospitals in a four year period, more suicides and a flood of mentally ill people in emergency rooms, homeless shelters and jails.
Tags: mental health; funding shortage; fraud; financial incompetence; mental illness; advocates; suicide; commitment; hospitalization