Ryann Grochowski Jones
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Ten Years of ProPublica: a Q&A on Leading the Way
Sisi Wei and Ryann Grochowski Jones on the past and future of their work at ProPublica → Read More
Opioid Makers Cut Back On Marketing Payments To Doctors
The past two years have been a time of reckoning for pharmaceutical manufacturers over their role in promoting opioid drugs that have fed a national → Read More
Opioid-Makers Cut Back On Marketing Payments To Doctors
ProPublica found that drugmakers spent less to market opioids to doctors in 2016 than in prior years. Studies have shown that payments to doctors are linked to more prescriptions for the drugs. → Read More
Reporting Recipe: Bombs in Your Backyard —
The military spends more than a billion dollars a year to clean up sites its operations have contaminated with toxic waste and explosives. These sites exist in every state in the country. Some are located near schools, residential neighborhoods, rivers and lakes. A full map of these sites has never been made public – until now. → Read More
Bombs in Your Backyard
The military spends more than a billion dollars a year to clean up sites its operations have contaminated with toxic waste and explosives. A map of these sites has never been made public — until now. Find ones near you. → Read More
Introducing Our Data Journalism Advisers —
Announcing four researchers who will advise us on our data-journalism projects. → Read More
Risky, Overused Medications Prescribed Far Less Often In Hawaii
Physicians and health policy experts cite demographics and healthier lifestyles as possible reasons. → Read More
People in this state take fewer opioid painkillers and antibiotics than any other state
Medicare patients in Hawaii take fewer opioid painkillers and fewer antibiotics, on average, than those in any other state, ProPublica reports. → Read More
Live In Hawaii, And Odds Are You'll Need Fewer Prescription Meds
People who live in the Aloha State are less likely to use opioid painkillers or be prescribed antibiotics than are mainland dwellers. Healthy lifestyles have a lot to do with that. → Read More
Live In Hawaii, And Odds Are You'll Need Fewer Prescription Meds
People who live in the Aloha State are less likely to use opioid painkillers or be prescribed antibiotics than are mainland dwellers. Healthy lifestyles have a lot to do with that. → Read More
We’ve Updated Dollars for Docs. Here’s What’s New.
ProPublica has been publishing data on conflicts of interest in medicine since 2010. We’ve updated our Dollars for Docs database with billions of dollars in payments made last year. → Read More
A Growing Group Of Doctors Are Big-Money Prescribers In Medicare
In 2011, just 41 health care providers prescribed more than $5 million each in medicines under Medicare Part D. In 2015, that number was 514. The rise of expensive hepatitis C drugs is a factor. → Read More
How We Compiled the Dollars for Docs Hospital Data
Our goal was to compare U.S. hospitals based on the percentage of their affiliated physicians who receive payments of various sizes from pharmaceutical and medical device companies. → Read More
Drug-Company Payments Mirror Doctors' Brand-Name Prescribing
An analysis of Medicare data shows that the more money a doctor gets from pharmaceutical companies, the more likely he or she is to prescribe brand-name medications. And that influences cost. → Read More
Free Food and Networking: Apply For Our Diversity Mentorship Program at ONA
ProPublica and Mashable are proud to announce our first-ever Diversity Mentorship Program at the Online News Association conference in Los Angeles this year. → Read More
Industry Payments To Doctors Are Ingrained, Federal Data Show
The latest data on payments from drug and device companies to doctors show that many doctors received payments on 100 or more days last year. Some received payments on more days than they didn't. → Read More
One Nation, Under Sedation: Medicare Paid for Nearly 40 Million Tranquilizer Prescriptions in 2013
Congress wouldn’t allow Medicare to pay for benzodiazepines such as Xanax and Ativan until 2013. Now, the medications are among the most prescribed in its drug program. → Read More
Uber Claims Credit for Drop in Drunk Driving Accidents. But Where’s the Evidence?
The ridesharing service published a report last week with Mothers Against Drunk Driving connecting the rise of Uber to a drop in drunk driving accidents. Except the connection isn't so clear. → Read More
Why Pharma Payments to Doctors Were So Hard to Parse
Flaws in information submitted to Open Payments, a government database of financial relationships in the medical field, complicated our analysis. → Read More
Vying for Market Share, Companies Heavily Promote ‘Me Too’ Drugs
Our comprehensive analysis of drug company spending on doctors in the last five months of 2013 shows the most-promoted products typically were not cures, breakthroughs or top sellers. → Read More