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Marshall Allen, ProPublica

American health insurers are using a popular sleep aid to spy on their customers. Why?

It is in keeping with the industry’s playbook of shifting the costs of widely used therapies, devices and tests to unsuspecting patients.

Marshall Allen, ProPublica
· Nov 25, 2018 · 11:30 pm
Are expiration dates on medicines just a myth?

If some drugs remain effective well beyond the date on their labels, why hasn’t there been a push to extend their expiration dates?

Marshall Allen, ProPublica
· Jul 25, 2017 · 08:30 pm
How two common medications were combined into one $455-million specialty pill

Vimovo costs way more than the two individual medicines. So how have its manufacturers managed to make it sell?

Marshall Allen, ProPublica
· Jun 24, 2017 · 11:30 pm

US nursing homes flush away drugs worth millions because they don’t know how to redistribute them

In a country where healthcare is costly and thousands cannot afford medicines, this is a sad waste. But Iowa’s case shows there is hope.

Marshall Allen, ProPublica
· Apr 29, 2017 · 08:30 pm