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Woman holding birth control pills (Getty Images/Isabel Pavia)

Trump restores Title X funding for two anti-abortion states — while wiping it out elsewhere

Rachana Pradhan
Signage outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center in St. Louis, Missouri. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Inside conservative activist Leonard Leo’s long campaign to gut Planned Parenthood

Rachana Pradhan
Child Mind Institute Convenes Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on World Mental Health Day for Youth Panel on October 10, 2023 in New York City. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

US Surgeon General declares gun violence “a public health crisis”

Rachana Pradhan, Fred Clasen-Kelly
Woman looking through bills and receipts (Getty Images/Grace Cary)

Abortion coverage is limited or unavailable at a quarter of large workplaces

Rachana Pradhan
US President Joe Biden speaks during an event celebrating the lowering of drug pricing in the East Room of the White House on August 29, 2023 in Washington DC, United States. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

5 things to know about the new drug pricing negotiations

Arthur Allen, Rachana Pradhan, David Hilzenrath
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) attends a press conference with fellow Republican Senators about the Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on September 29, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Republican's accused the Democrats of failing to pass legislation to solve government spending and security issues. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Big Pharma pours drug industry money on Republican Senator Tim Scott

Rachana Pradhan, Victoria Knight
Child getting vaccinated (Getty Images/vgajic)

Why omicron stalled the effort to vaccinate young children

Rachana Pradhan, Hannah Recht
Mitch McConnell and Kyrsten Sinema (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Big Pharma delivered campaign cash to key lawmakers with surgical precision

Rachana Pradhan, Elizabeth Lucas, Victoria Knight
Digital generated image of circular pattern made out of Syringes with COVID-19 vaccine targeting into coronavirus cell (Getty Images)

Stark racial disparities persist in vaccinations, state-level CDC data shows

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CVS and Walgreens have wasted more vaccine doses than most states combined

Joshua Eaton, Rachana Pradhan
Dr. Jason Smith displays his bandage after being administered a COVID-19 vaccination at University of Louisville Hospital on December 14, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine became available for specified use on Monday morning to five members of hospital staff. Dr. Smith became the first recipient of the vaccine in the state of Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Inside the first chaotic days of the effort to vaccinate America

Rachana Pradhan, Lauren Weber, Jay Hancock
A medical syringe and vials in front of the AstraZeneca British biopharmaceutical company logo are seen in this creative photo taken on 18 November 2020. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

How pharma money colors Operation Warp Speed’s quest to defeat COVID

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Inside the flawed White House testing scheme that failed to protect Trump

Rachana Pradhan, Lauren Weber, Liz Szabo
Donald Trump | Scientist synthesizing vaccine concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

These secret safety panels will pick the COVID vaccine winners

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally | COVID-19 patient attached to a ventilator (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump is sending cheap COVID tests to nursing homes — but there’s a hitch

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp | Closed Church (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes/Brynn Anderson)

As Georgia reopened, officials knew of severe shortage of PPE for health care workers

Rachana Pradhan, Victoria Knight
Business Bailouts (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The booming business that took a $137 million coronavirus bailout anyway

Jordan Rau, Rachana Pradhan
A member of the medical staff comforts a patient infected by the novel coronavirus (PIERO CRUCIATTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Abandoned by Trump’s White House: Inside states’ mad scramble to buy their own ventilators

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Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019 in Washington. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump-touted fast COVID-19 test poses safety issues, lab workers say

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Trump touted Abbott’s COVID-19 test — but emails show only 5,500 on way for entire U.S.: report

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Nurses work in the aisle in a hospital designated for COVID-19 patients in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Friday, March 06, 2020. (Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Internal emails reveal Trump administration officials warned about lack of protective gear early on

Rachana Pradhan, Christina Jewett
In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 photo, Dr. Sherif Zaki adjusts a microscope at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. On Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, the nation's top public health agency issued a frank assessment of its recent battles against prioritized health problems, finding progress in some areas but backslide in others. Despite the mixed grades in the CDC’s report card on itself, some experts applauded CDC efforts, saying the agency had only limited abilities to prevent illness or stop people from doing things that hurt their own health. (AP Photo/Branden Camp) (AP)

This one decision by the CDC will likely haunt the nation for months to come

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