Why Do We Need Investigative Journalism?
NECIR Executive Director Joe Bergantino joined a panel discussion on 6/19 to discuss the past, present and future of investigative journalism. Watch the video here:
View ArticleViolent and legal: the shocking way school kids are being pinned down,...
For more than a decade, mental-health facilities and other institutions have worked to curtail the practice of physically restraining children or isolating them in rooms against their will. Indeed,...
View ArticleMother of third baby to die in three months speaks out on DCF connection
The mother of the third toddler with Department for Children and Families connections to die in three months spoke out this week, saying she never harmed her son and she feels unfairly linked to two...
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Appeal filed for federal government to release addresses of vulnerable...
Saco, Maine, April 20, 2007 -- A home that succumbed to storm surge following the Patriots' Day Nor'easter. (FEMA/Marty Bahamonde - Wikimedia Commons) By: Beth Daley New England Center for...
View ArticleBeth Daley and Prof. Onderdonk answer Lyme questions
Beth Daley and Professor Onderdonk host an AMA on Reddit, answering your lingering questions about Lyme disease testing.
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Full List of Rejected Tests
At least seven labs in the U.S. have been denied permission to offer Lyme tests over the past decade in New York, according to state records obtained by the New England Center for Investigative...
View ArticleProfessor Onderdonk Explains Lyme Disease Tests – Extended Interview
As Lyme disease becomes an increasingly challenging public health threat across the Northeast, a growing number of tests for the vexing ailment may be misdiagnosing patients when telling them that they...
View ArticleAs more imported foods reach the dinner table, holes remain in FDA safety net
In April 2012, a team of inspectors from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigated a seafood company in southern India that had been exporting tons of frozen yellow fin tuna to the United...
View ArticleHow much will that MRI cost? Patients often in the dark.
Because her family’s health insurance plan has a $10,000 deductible, Sue Haynie tries to watch what they spend on medical care and figure out what it will cost ahead of time. But that’s easier said...
View ArticleIn military care, a pattern of errors but not scrutiny
Jessica Zeppa, five months pregnant, the wife of a soldier, showed up four times at Reynolds Army Community Hospital here in pain, weak, barely able to swallow and fighting a fever. The last time, she...
View ArticleHow politics derailed EPA science on arsenic, endangering public health
Living in the lush, wooded countryside with fresh New England air, Wendy Brennan never imagined her family might be consuming poison every day. But when she signed up for a research study offering a...
View ArticleThe Lyme Disease Testing Loophole
NECIR's Beth Daley is interviewed on NECN's Health Watch about her recent investigation into Lyme disease testing in America.
View ArticleMarkey, other lawmakers, call for better oversight of diagnostic tests
Sen. Edward J. Markey and other lawmakers are urging the Obama Administration to release draft recommendations that could spell out how a growing number of diagnostic tests for cancer and other medical...
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Legalizing debt service companies in Mass. raises concerns
Massachusetts ban on for-profit debt counseling companies kept them out of the state for decades. A proposed bill aims to reverse that ban. (Lauren Owens/NECIR) By: Kathleen Day and Jenifer McKim A...
View ArticleMore than 200 inmates in prison because of lack of housing
There are 224 Vermont inmates sitting in prison who could be released if they had a place to live, according to data from the Department of Corrections. DOC officials say they need more halfway houses,...
View ArticleYears home, female Iraq vets endure the wounds of war
It’s been nine years since Eunice Ramirez served in Iraq, but she still suffers from war wounds – post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, respiratory problems and frequent crying triggered by her...
View ArticleBoston’s residency rule routinely flouted
Thirteen of the 22 top leaders in Boston’s Police Department live outside the city in apparent violation of the city’s residency requirement, a law frequently ignored and weakly enforced, according to...
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