Jan 23, 2025 · Goodyear Agrees to Remedy Carcinogen Emissions From Niagara Falls Plant. The consent order with New York regulators, which includes a penalty, comes after months of investigative reporting by WBFO and Public Health Watch.

Apr 6, 2023 · The Watch: November 14, 2024. Childbirth costly for many low-income Americans Low-income people with commercial insurance often have higher childbirth costs than people with Medicaid, a new study in Millbank Quarterly finds.

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Jan 16, 2025 · Anatomy of an Investigation ‘sweat and blood … and even death’ by Public Health Watch July 28, 2024. Two years ago, Public Health Watch’s editor-in-chief got a tip about an unpublicized silicosis epidemic among immigrant workers in the LA area.

Our Mission We are the only nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom in the United States dedicated exclusively to investigating life-threatening public health inequities. Our mission is to improve people’s well-being through rigorous, data-driven journalism. Who We Are Based in Texas, we report throughout the country, with an emphasis on the Southwest. Our team comprises subject-matter experts led […]

Dec 31, 2024 · From life-threatening air pollution in a community near Houston to a resurgence of black lung in Appalachia and the real-world consequences of Texas’ worst-in-the-nation uninsured rate, Public Health Watch produced cutting-edge journalism on a wide range of topics in 2024.

Aug 16, 2021 · Today we unveil Public Health Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news site that will focus on the prevention of illness, injury and death. The timing is fortuitous, given the maddeningly resilient COVID-19 virus. But the idea of Public Health Watch has been percolating for more than two years. While we’re all preoccupied with the pandemic, […]

Dec 24, 2024 · After scrutinizing thousands of pages of records, we conservatively tallied 1,073 people exposed to radiation in medical and technical experiments conducted by the San Francisco-headquartered U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory from 1946 to 1963.

Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Can Be Dangerous for Those Who Need Opioid Addiction Medications. This report for NPR’s “All Things Considered” examines how the Medicaid “unwinding” has worsened health risks for patients in treatment for opioid addiction and …

Sep 10, 2024 · Millions of Americans — nearly 1 in 12 by recent estimates — lack health coverage. In some states the numbers are much higher, like my home state of Texas, where about 1 in 6 people are uninsured.. Now, with the end of COVID-era policies that provided coverage for many low-income families, the ranks of the uninsured are growing.