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Byline: Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas Acadia Healthcare is one of America's largest chains of psychiatric hospitals. Since the pandemic exacerbated a national mental health crisis, the company's revenue has [...]

Acadia Healthcare is one of America's largest chains of psychiatric hospitals. Since the pandemic exacerbated a national mental health crisis, the company's revenue has soared. Its stock price has more [...]

Byline: Jessica Silver-Greenberg Uber has spent millions trying to get a proposal on the Nevada ballot that would restrict the legal fees that bankroll many lawsuits against companies. It has [...]

The move by the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center was the second time this month that a hospital has taken this rare step. A major Pennsylvania hospital [...]

A Houston hospital is investigating whether a doctor altered a transplant list to make his patients ineligible for care. A disproportionate number of them have died while waiting for new [...]

A Houston hospital is investigating whether a doctor altered a transplant list to make his patients ineligible for care. A disproportionate number of them have died while waiting for new [...]

The clinics' owner, Dr. Jihad Mustapha, who called himself the ''leg saver'' but whose procedures sometimes preceded amputations, was a focus of a Times investigation last year. A doctor who [...]

The clinics’ owner, Dr. Jihad Mustapha, who called himself the “leg saver” but whose procedures sometimes preceded amputations, was a focus of a Times investigation last year. A doctor who [...]

Mothers have complained that Melanie Henstrom, a lactation consultant in Boise, Idaho, pressured them to get their babies' tongues lasered by a dentist. The national body that certifies lactation consultants [...]

Mothers have complained that Melanie Henstrom, a lactation consultant in Boise, Idaho, pressured them to get their babies’ tongues lasered by a dentist. The national body that certifies lactation consultants [...]

Cada vez más se recomienda liberar los tejidos que unen la lengua, labios y mejillas de los niños para facilitar la lactancia. Sin embargo, los doctores advierten sobre la seriedad [...]

The Health Dept. is looking into the public hospital's use of unlicensed technicians during some bariatric surgeries. The New York State Department of Health is scrutinizing Bellevue Hospital's use of [...]

The Health Dept. is looking into the public hospital’s use of unlicensed technicians during some bariatric surgeries. The New York State Department of Health is scrutinizing Bellevue Hospital’s use of [...]

Tess Merrell had breastfed three babies and never expected trouble with her fourth. But after a month of struggling with her newborn, she hired Melanie Henstrom for help. Ms. Henstrom, [...]

Tongue, lip and cheek-tie releases are often recommended to help with breastfeeding or to prevent health problems. Few studies have shown benefits. It’s an increasingly common scenario faced by new [...]

Tess Merrell had breastfed three babies and never expected trouble with her fourth. But after a month of struggling with her newborn, she hired Melanie Henstrom for help. Ms. Henstrom, [...]

New York's Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients. In the windowless basement of a Manhattan church last [...]

El Hospital Bellevue de Nueva York realiza miles de estas lucrativas cirugías cada año, incluso a pacientes que no cumplen con los requisitos para ser intervenidos. El mes pasado, el [...]

Byline: Katie Thomas, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Gebeloff Kelly Hanna's leg was amputated onÃáa summer day in 2020, after a Michigan doctor who called himself the 'leg saver' had damaged [...]

Kelly Hanna's leg was amputated on a summer day in 2020, after a Michigan doctor who called himself the ''leg saver'' had damaged her arteries by snaking metal wires through [...]

Byline: Sarah Kliff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg Many hospitals in the United States use aggressive tactics to collect medical debt. They flood local courts with collections lawsuits. They garnish patients' wages. [...]

Many hospitals in the United States use aggressive tactics to collect medical debt. They flood local courts with collections lawsuits. They garnish patients' wages. They seize their tax refunds. But [...]

The federal agency that oversees nursing homes has tightened rules around the use of powerful antipsychotic drugs. Federal regulators said Wednesday that they will begin penalizing nursing homes that give [...]

In New York University's busy Manhattan emergency department, Room 20 is special. Steps away from the hospital's ambulance bay, the room is outfitted with equipment to perform critical procedures or [...]

Byline: Rebecca Robbins, Katie Thomas and Jessica Silver-Greenberg At a hospital in a Chicago suburb last winter, there were so few nurses that psychiatric patients with Covid were left waiting [...]

The move may affect giant social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, as well as smaller ones like Mastodon and Truth Social. Twitter said on Sunday that it would ban [...]

At a hospital in a Chicago suburb last winter, there were so few nurses that psychiatric patients with Covid were left waiting a full day for beds, and a single [...]

Providence began reaching out to more than 700 patients after The Times contacted the hospital system about its billing and debt-collection practices. One of the country's largest nonprofit hospital chains, [...]

Byline: Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas In 2018, senior executives at one of the country's largest nonprofit hospital chains, Providence, were frustrated. They were spending hundreds of millions of dollars [...]

RICHMOND, Va. -- In late July, Norman Otey was rushed by ambulance to Richmond Community Hospital. The 63-year-old was doubled over in pain and babbling incoherently. Blood tests suggested septic [...]

In 2018, senior executives at one of the country's largest nonprofit hospital chains, Providence, were frustrated. They were spending hundreds of millions of dollars providing free health care to patients. [...]

Byline: David Yaffe-Bellany and Jessica Silver-Greenberg Daniel Defense, which makes military-style rifles, was an early adopter of direct-to-consumer marketing and has a history of running provocative ads. After one of [...]

Daniel Defense, which makes military-style rifles, was an early adopter of direct-to-consumer marketing and has a history of running provocative ads. After one of its military-style rifles was used in [...]