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Sep 5, 2024 |
scrippsnews.com | Catie Beck
Sky-high demand and costly price tags for wildly popular injectable diet drugs are now fueling the sale of counterfeit versions. Since January, the FDA has confiscated thousands of counterfeit diet drugs, issuing warnings about the potentially dangerous medications they say threaten the safety of public health. The FDA warns some of these fake drugs have even fooled pharmacists and managed to slip into the U.S. supply chain, causing hospitalizations and death.
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Apr 26, 2024 |
wxyz.com | Carrie Cochran |Amy Fan |Catie Beck
A cost-saving decision 10 years ago created one of the more shocking public health scandals in the country — killing a dozen residents and exposing 100,000 others in Flint, Michigan, to poisonous water contaminated with lead — all while city and state officials claimed the water was safe. When the errors were exposed more than a year later, city and state officials vowed to clean up the mess and replace the corroding pipes poisoning residents.
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Mar 12, 2024 |
wxyz.com | Carrie Cochran |Catie Beck
Editor's Note: This story is part of a partnership with ProPublicaand reporters Maya Miller and Robin Fields. A Michigan lawmaker has introduced new legislation, moved by a Scripps News and ProPublica joint investigation into the insurance company that denied a man coverage of cancer treatment, despite his state’s decades-old requirement that state health plans cover drugs for cancer.
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Feb 13, 2024 |
wxyz.com | Catie Beck |Carrie Cochran |Rosie Cima
On a December afternoon, Scripps News investigative correspondent Catie Beck walks up to a van in a New Orleans city park wearing a hidden camera. About 10 minutes later, she leaves with an envelope of four syringes full of what she’s told is prescription weight loss drugs. Her name is nowhere on the envelope or the syringes. Neither is a doctor’s name, or a pharmacy name.
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May 26, 2023 |
nbcnews.com | Catie Beck
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