What if you didn’t have to ban vaccines to make them harder to get? My latest @rollingstone.com investigation examines a potential “backdoor” strategy: changing the committees, compensation systems, and evidentiary standards that shape U.S. vaccine policy.

Lately, existential threats where once-vanquished viruses make a devastating comeback are no longer hard to imagine. Across the globe--amid widespread aid cuts--experts are concerned an old foe may be on its way back. Polio. My latest via @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Inside the Global Fight to Keep Polio From Making a Comeback

Inside the global fight to keep polio from making a comeback due to humanitarian funding cuts and vaccine skepticism.

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From @emcahan.bsky.social reporting from the frontline of the global health care crisis: "If polio spreads unchecked abroad, it increases the risk of resurgence here at home, putting American families at risk.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... via @RollingStone

Inside the Global Fight to Keep Polio From Making a Comeback

Inside the global fight to keep polio from making a comeback due to humanitarian funding cuts and vaccine skepticism.

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Last August, some teens went day-drinking. The party was pretty standard, until a classmate passed out. Then, Rilan used Narcan. Opioids are a leading killer of American kids. But, kids like Rilan struggle to get the antidote. My latest @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Naloxone Is a Proven Fix for Overdoses. So Why Can't Teens Access It?

Naloxone can prevent fentanyl overdoses, but prescribing laws, minor consent laws, and Good Samaritan laws in many states keep teens from carrying it.

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Katerina's anorexia hospitalized her over & over. Even still, eventually, she found a way thru. Then, insurance cut her off. People w/severe mental illness are frequently denied life-saving care. That's dangerous. It also may be illegal. Via @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

'Going Home to Die': People With Eating Disorders Need Special Care. Insurers Are Denying It

Insurers are using loopholes in a mental health parity law to get around paying for expensive in-patient care.

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The judges also awarded a strong honorable mention to @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social of @theexamination.org, as well as @petersgoodman.bsky.social and Samuel Granados of @nytimes.com, for their investigation into lead poisoning resulting from battery recycling.

.@harrisalexc.bsky.social and @semerriam.bsky.social of @miamiherald.com have won the 2025 Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy and Environment Writing  from NPF, revealing how climate change & street flooding are reshaping life & property values in South Florida. nationalpress.org/award-story/...

ICYMI: Senator Ron Wyden, ranking member of the Finance Committee, which oversees Medicare, called Benjamin Landa an example of “giant corporate health care interests that prey on the vulnerable and...exploit loopholes at taxpayers’ expense.” Lots more inside. www.propublica.org/article/benj...

Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments

A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...

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Last summer, Benjamin Landa, the nominee for Ambassador to Hungary, donated $5M to a pro-Trump Super PAC. Now, a facility he co-owns is in litigation with federal health agencies over an estimated $31M in Medicare overbillings. By @emcahan.bsky.social

Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments

A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...

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A New York nursing home is suing the Trump administration to stop the government from recouping alleged Medicare overpayments. That facility is co-owned by the man nominated by the Trump administration to be ambassador to Hungary. By @emcahan.bsky.social

Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments

A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...

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A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination as ambassador to Hungary, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility is suing to stop collection. @emcahan.bsky.social

Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments

A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...

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1 month after Trump nominated Ben Landa, who owns >100 nursing homes, for Ambassador to Hungary, the President's own agency estimated his facility received over $31 million in excess taxpayer money via Medicare. Landa then sued the gov. It's just the beginning. www.propublica.org/article/benj...

Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments

A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...

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Trump’s Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments, by @emcahan.bsky.social

Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments

A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...

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I'm incredibly grateful to run Boston again on behalf of Boston Medical Center. Amid devastating federal budget cuts--and more to come--BMC's work helping the sickest kids, infants, and babies is more important now than ever. Please consider supporting us: www.givengain.com/project/eli-...

The steps by HHS to hamstring the CDC (and state departments) have imperiled the public’s health for political purposes, neighborhood docs, officials, and national experts told me. It's all putting kids' lives in the balance. My latest for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

'More Kids Will Die': Measles Are on the Rise -- and Doctors Say There's No End in Sight

U.S. measles outbreak has hit 2,000 confirmed cases amid Trump and RFK Jr.'s assault on vaccines and the CDC. Doctors and health experts weigh in.

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"That’s the trope: they’re just being a teenager. And I heard that exact language pretty much from almost every family that I spoke to, which was that at some point someone said to them, They're just being a teenager. " @emcahan.bsky.social 🔗 www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/eli...

Investigative journalist and pediatrician @emcahan.bsky.social joined me to discuss the magnitude of the #longCovid crisis in the youth population of the US, addressed in their recent @rollingstone.com piece. 🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/long-c...

Long Covid Is Changing an Entire Generation / Eli Cahan | Last Born In The Wilderness

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Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations. Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators. By @emcahan.bsky.social

For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.

Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...

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Thank you Dr. Alexandra Yonts (who was interviewed for this piece). The clinic at Children’s National in DC is beacon of hope with only a handful of US Pediatric Long Covid clinics still running. @pidringer.bsky.social #PedSky #LongCovidKids

Eli Cahan@emcahan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy,” Joy says. “It feels like the world has moved on.” Long Covid is setting back a generation of kids--likely against their federal rights Our @rollingstone.com investigation www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Took me awhile to read this excellent, deeply researched and reported piece. So grateful to @emcahan.bsky.social and @rollingstone.com giving Long Covid in kids the attention it deserves and for highlighting the difficulties of getting a diagnosis and support. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation

Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

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Thank you @emcahan.bsky.social for your incredible work on this piece and thank you @rollingstone.com for publishing it. So many families trusted you with their stories. #LongCovidKids

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Once again Rolling Stone knocks it out of the park with Covid coverage. Long Covid is real and it is a serious threat to our long term health. It’s already surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in kids. Yet tons of doctors and schools won’t even recognize it:

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy,” Joy says. “It feels like the world has moved on.” Long Covid is setting back a generation of kids--likely against their federal rights Our @rollingstone.com investigation www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation

Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

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Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations. Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators. By @emcahan.bsky.social

For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.

Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...

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ICYMI: Some psychiatric hospitals across the country are illegally turning away patients, with few consequences. Most are owned by multi-billion dollar for-profit companies. I spoke with @opb.org about our @propublica.org reporting www.opb.org/article/2025...

Some psychiatric hospitals, including in Oregon, are turning away patients and violating the law, new reporting finds

Cedar Hills Hospital in Portland violated federal law. But reporting from ProPublica found that many psychiatric hospitals that turn away or discharge patients too early face few consequences.

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“The executive branch is using the shutdown as cover for a...targeted dismantling of leadership across the agency," an official told @statnews.com "It’s designed to sow chaos...and cripple the federal scientific infrastructure that protects Americans’ health." www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

‘It’s a massacre’: CDC battered by government shutdown firings

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

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Since 2010, >90 psych hospitals have failed to provide emergency care to ppl in mental health crises. Most violations were by hospitals owned by billion dollar for profit companies. It's all illegal. But they've faced few consequences. We discussed on @npr.org: one.npr.org?sharedMediaI...

🔊 Listen Now: Some psychiatric hospitals turn away patients in crisis, violating federal law

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👀 On our radar: Few consequences for psychiatric hospitals that break the law Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up. ✍️ @emcahan.bsky.social @ProPublica.org

Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.

Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.

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EMTALA requires universal care for “emergency medical conditions” regardless of a person’s insurance status. In the decades since its passage, some patients have died hours after failing to receive care they were legally entitled to. By @emcahan.bsky.social

Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.

Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.

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Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations. Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators. By @emcahan.bsky.social

For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.

Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...

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ICYMI: Psychiatric Hospitals Are Violating EMTALA by Turning Patients Away, by @emcahan.bsky.social

Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.

Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.

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