Poor leadership at Rutland Mental Health Services left clients at risk
Former RMH CEO Dan Quinn was pressured to resign last week in the wake of allegations of bad management. A VTDigger investigation looks into Quinn’s alleged neglect and failure to communicate...
View ArticleMRI contrast agents leave toxic traces
A ProPublica investigation reveals the dangerous effects of contrast agents patients are injected with before receiving an MRI screening. One, Omniscan, can leaves behind traces of gadolinium that...
View ArticleWorld War II chemical experiments grouped subjects by race
During World War II, scientists used 60,000 American troops as guinea pigs in experiments involving mustard gas and other chemical agents. The program, once held secret, was formally declassified in...
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NECIR reporter wins prestigious journalism award
Brooke WilliamsNECIR reporter Brooke Williams Congratulations to NECIR senior investigative reporter and senior trainer Brooke Williams, who won a 2015 Gerald Loeb Award alongside Eric Lipton, Ben...
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Boston 2024 land watch
Isaiah Thompson, NECIRProposed 2024 Olympic sites in Boston The Olympics are about many things: athleticism; nationalism; internationalism; world peace, even. They’re also about politics, power,...
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Air pollution and dementia: a startling connection
Wikimedia Commons It has long been known that air pollution can cause a host of health problems in humans. Respiratory issues like asthma and lung infections or cancers are just a few. But Mother Jones...
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Knockoff perfumers allegedly launder millions in drug money
Wikimedia Commons After "Snooki" (Nicole Polizzi) from the "Jersey Shore" TV show filed a trademark lawsuit against Excell Brands for using her name to promote a fragrance, a federal investigation was...
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Air samples suggest coffee roasting releases a harmful chemical compound
Kris Krüg on Flickr The smell of warm, freshly brewed coffee is pleasant to those who drink it. But for those who roast it, inhaling it can be life threatening, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel....
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Little action taken against sexual assaults of female janitors
Ricky Montalvo on Flickr About 50 people per day are sexually assaulted or raped in the workplace, studies say. A Reveal News collaboration alleges many of these cases go unnoticed or ignored,...
View ArticleA popular blood thinner and its devastating effects
Coumadin, a blood thinner that has been used for decades, is putting nursing home patients in grave danger. A ProPublica and Washington Post investigation found that from 2011-2014, at least 165...
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Unaccredited schools of sexuality, religion, and massage paid for by the GI Bill
Flickr. The U.S. Department of Education has a set of minimum standards that must be met by most schools before receiving federal funds. However, Reveal News found that some schools do not have to meet...
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US taxpayers fund ‘white nationalist’ group that inspired alleged Charleston...
Wikimedia Commons. The Council of Conservative Citizens, which promotes white primacy, allegedly inspired Dylann Roof, the man charged with nine counts of murder in the shootings at the South’s oldest...
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Amphetamines prescribed to treat binge eating disorder
Flickr. Amphetamines were once used as diet pills. But in the 1970s, production and use of them dropped after the FDA deemed them only appropriate for narcolepsy and ADHD (then called hyperkinetic...
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Connecticut nurse pleads guilty to drug kickback charges
Flickr An advanced practice registered nurse identified in recent Connecticut Health i–Team stories as the state’s highest Medicare program prescriber of potent narcotics – writing $2.7 million in...
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Mercury emissions down but mercury in Mass. fish remains high
Mercury emissions from major Massachusetts sources have declined by 90 percent over the past two decades, but mercury levels in the state’s freshwater fish hold stubbornly high, with many species too...
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Colorado law easy on rogue officers
Pixabay. Colorado law is lenient when it comes to discipline of police officers. Unless they are convicted of a felony or one of 44 misdemeanors detailed in statute as cause to end an officer's career,...
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The “tragic” effects of the new VA painkiller policy
Flickr. The VA used to freely hand out prescriptions for painkillers to veterans. However, it recently began cutting back, leaving the veterans who relied on them to seek out their drugs elsewhere,...
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Staph outbreak at Alabama daycare shows lack of oversight
Wikimedia Commons. After 86 children at two of Sunny Side Day Care Center’s locations became ill with a staph bacteria, questions arose. The Montgomery Advertiser reports Sunny Side is one of Alabama’s...
View ArticleExamining medical care in California prison
California Forensic Medical Group, a private contractor that provides medical services to correctional facilities, is growing exponentially. It oversees the treatment of about 13,000 inmates in...
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Thousands of rape kits found untested and abandoned
Flickr. USA TODAY marshaled journalists from more than 75 Gannett newspapers and television stations to request and inventory untested rape kits at 1,000 law enforcement agencies across the nation and...
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