David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Why It’s So Tough to Reduce Unnecessary Medical Care
Markian HawrylukNovember 13, 2023 The U.S. spends huge amounts of money on health care that does little or nothing to help patients, and may even harm them. In Colorado, a new analysis shows that the number of tests and treatments…
Medical Debt Is Making Americans Angry. Doctors and Hospitals Ignore This at Their Peril.
Noam N. LeveyJuly 21, 2023 For Emily Boller, it was a $5,000 hospital bill for a simple case of pink eye that took four years to pay off. For Mary Curley, it was the threatening collection letters from a lab…
How Medicare Advantage Plans Dodged Auditors and Overcharged Taxpayers by Millions
In April 2016, government auditors asked a Blue Cross Medicare Advantage health plan in Minnesota to turn over medical records of patients treated by a podiatry practice whose owner had been indicted for fraud. Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News and…
Injuries Mount as Sales Reps for Device Makers Cozy Up to Surgeons, Even in Operating Rooms
Cristina Martinez’s spinal operation in Houston was expected to be routine. But after destabilizing her spine, the surgeon discovered the implant he was ready to put in her back was larger than he wanted to use — and the device…
Democrats Eye Medicare Negotiations to Lower Drug Prices
Emmarie Huetteman March 23, 2021 Democrats, newly in control of Congress and the White House, are united behind an idea that Republican lawmakers and major drugmakers fiercely oppose: empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate the…
How One Employer Stuck a New Mom With an $898,984 Bill for Her Premature Baby
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story was originally published in ProPublica. by Marshall Allen, ProPublica
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor