THE RECKONING

Hard reporting on the business of illness

Following the money behind preventable harm, across pharma, food systems and water & air.

Water & Air

Smelter towns in Chile are drinking the runoff. The clinics are full and nobody kept records.

Residents living within two kilometres of three copper refineries carry arsenic loads 3.8 times the national ceiling, blood panels show.

March 6, 2024

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Food systems: paying the messenger

Food Systems

The food industry pays ‘creator’ dietitians to shape what you eat

Registered dietitians are paid to post videos promoting diet soda, sweeteners and supplements to audiences of 1.4 million and up.

January 11, 2024

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Investigation: The inhaler cartel

Big Pharma · The Inhaler Cartel

How three firms kept a 40-year-old asthma drug out of reach

For two decades a handful of manufacturers blocked generics of a medicine that costs 41 cents to produce. An estimated 1.8 million patients ration doses.

January 8, 2024