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Toothless:
Washington's Lax Dental Oversight
This investigation found that Washington's dental board is slow to act
and has cut generous deals with some of the state's most complained-about
dentists. The series revealed that dentists were allowed to continue working
in Washington with little restriction long after they have lost licenses
in other states, or have been caught running dangerously unsanitary clinics,
or have repeatedly injured patients.
October 3-5, 2005
Accused
Priests Took In Minors
Buried deep in the thousands of sexual abuse allegations against Roman
Catholic priests lies a startling, little-known fact: Dozens of clerics
accused of molesting minors lived with children, often serving as legal
parents or guardians to boys who called their rectories home.
(Aug. 19-20, 2004)
Medical
School Gets Failing Grades
Enterprise
reporting unearths UCI Medical School's "report card," showing that a
quarter of the school's teaching programs don't meet national education
standards, and that the school's record is the worst in the country.
Further investigation finds that the neurosurgery training program is
graduating students with inadequate surgical training. Following this
series, the neurosurgery department chairman was fired and the
neurosurgery training program was closed.
June 12,
1997
Dental Death
This
investigation of a young boy's death during a routine dental visit reveals
that a chain of low cost clinics for the poor is pressuring inexperienced
dentists to do excessive amounts of dental work on children in a single
sitting. To keep the children quiet, dentists give their young patients
sedatives and tie them down on restraint boards. This series reveals that
regulations fail on many counts to require recommended safety measures.
The series prompted the state legislature to strengthen regulations
governing dental practices.
August 21, 1997
Public Health vs
individual rights
It's a question as old as leprosy or the
plague: When does protecting the well supersede the rights of the
ill?
April 26, 1995
Fen-Phen a Diet Drug to
Die for?
A month before the Mayo Clinic reported the first
evidence of a possible connection between Fen-Phen and heart disease,
local rumors of sudden heart attacks in young women led to this
investigation of heart-failure deaths in people who had been taking the
popular diet drug combo. Reporting finds that gaps in the federal drug
approval system mean one of the drugs hadn't been thoroughly studied, that
the system for reporting deaths and side-effects is ineffective, and that
even as millions are taking the combo, federal officials are quietly
investigating whether the popular diet drugs are killing people .
June 1,
1997
Medical
Features
The Baby Business
It's been 16 years since the birth of test-tube baby Louise Brown,
the first child created by in-vitro fertilization. IVF led to a spate of
new discoveries and treatments; by 1994 the fertility industry had grown
to a $2 billion business. The problem: Regulations haven't kept up with
the rapid growth of the industry.
May 18, 1995
The Contact Lens Conspiracy
A state investigation finds that eye doctors and their
organizations are conspiring to limit consumers' ability to buy contacts
from discounters. The alleged conspiracy cost the average consumer $50 a
year, and adds about $150 million to the cost of lenses sold in the United
States every year.
January 22,
1997
Should insurers cover unproven
“last hope” treatments?
June 19,
1996
Essays & Etc.
Hai, Sensai!
One hour
with a karate master is all it takes to wipe that smug smile off your
face.
Secondhand, First
Rate
An insider's guide to the secondhand clothes shops of Corona
del Mar.
