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Cherise Doyley, a mother of three, was in labor at a Florida hospital when a nurse brought her a tablet. On the screen were a judge and several lawyers, doctors and hospital staff. Doyley wanted to have a vaginal birth. They wanted to force her to undergo a cesarean section.

Doyley, a professional doula, had had three prior C-sections — including one that resulted in a hemorrhage. She hoped to avoid another serious complication and lengthy recovery.

In labor and in a Zoom court hearing, Doyley had no lawyer or advocate and no one to explain to her what was going on. After three hours of testimony, the judge ruled that she could keep trying for a vaginal birth unless there was an emergency.

Overnight, doctors wheeled her into surgery. The baby was delivered by C-section.

ProPublica reporter Amy Yurkanin obtained a video recording of Doyley’s court hearing. Watch Doyley undergo this legal ordeal and argue for her own medical choices from a hospital bed.

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The Trump administration has made it more difficult for veterans with a rare but deadly cancer to get their health care needs covered by the government. The policy, involving breast cancer in men, is laid out in a Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica.

The memo does not cite any evolving science. Rather, it relies on an order that President Donald Trump issued on his first day in office titled: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”

Jack Gelman is a former Navy fighter pilot whose long-dormant breast cancer has returned. The VA denied that his breast cancer was related to his service, and his appeal of its decision has since been denied. Listen to him share his experience.

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In the first seven months of President Donald Trump’s second term, authorities arrested and detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace has held up, will have roughly doubled by now. That’s an average of more than 50 U.S. citizen kids a day with a parent pulled into detention.

Because American-born kids can’t legally join their parents in immigration detention, some end up with friends or strangers when their parents are detained or deported.

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In an investigation by ProPublica and the Denver Gazette, reporters Evan Wyloge and Chris Osher bought vape products from dispensaries in Colorado and documented how some may have been made from chemically converted hemp instead of marijuana, a cheaper alternative that can carry potential health risks.

Although Colorado was one of the first states to ban intoxicating hemp, new reporting found it may still be showing up in marijuana dispensaries there. The ingestion of toxic chemicals found in hemp-derived vapes can cause liver cancer, lung cancer, damage to the reproductive system and damage to the immune system.

Watch Evan Wyloge break down how they tracked purchases and worked with an independent testing lab to find toxic chemical residues experts say are indicative of hemp-derived THC.

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The number of families being held at the Dilley immigration detention center in Texas has dropped dramatically: This week, the facility’s average daily population fell to around 100 people, down from more than 900 in January.

The decline comes after reporting by ProPublica’s Mica Rosenberg and of growing public pressure, fueled in part by the widespread circulation of letters written by detained children that drew national attention to conditions inside the facility.

The Dilley family detention facility has also restricted video calls in common areas after detainees’ call recordings were shared on social media, according to a document viewed by ProPublica.

Watch as Mica Rosenberg reports on the latest from Dilley.

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Like many reporters, ProPublica Managing Editor Ginger Thompson went to Albany, Georgia, in 2020 to cover COVID-19. The sleepy, majority African American city had become one of the United States’ first hot spots.

But she soon realized there was a bigger story to tell.

The more she investigated Albany and Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital — the largest health care provider, employer and property owner around — the more she began to wonder: How is it that people in Albany are so sick when the dominant institution in town is a hospital?

Watch Thompson explore these questions and more, and read her full investigation at the link in bio.

Photos by Almudena Toral. Footage by Katie Campbell and Mauricio Rodríguez Pons. Graphics by Lucas Waldron.

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Fourteen-year-old Ariana spent more than 45 days at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.

In early February there were more than 750 families — nearly half of them including children — being held at this facility. Since the start of the Trump administration, the number of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention has skyrocketed, increasing sixfold.

Mothers in Dilley told ProPublica reporter Mica Rosenberg that there were children inside who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide. Two cases of measles were discovered in the center.

Rosenberg asked detainees whether their children would be willing to write letters or draw pictures about their experiences. Listen to former Dilley detainee Ariana tell her story.

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Health insurance rates in Albany, Georgia — one of the country’s poorest districts in a state without Medicaid expansion — have risen to among the highest in the nation.
Clifford Thomas promised he’d honor his mother’s last request before she died: Keep the family healthy.

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Clifford Thomas and his family lost four relatives during the COVID-19 pandemic, including his beloved mother, Beverly.

A middle school teacher, Beverly had struggled with chronic health problems all her life, and when they forced her to leave her job due to disability, she was unable to afford regular medical care. Her final request to her son was that he keep the family healthy.

But in Albany, Georgia, achieving that promise is a battle. The city is served by a single, dominant hospital system, Phoebe Putney Memorial. Its control of the market and Georgia’s strict limits on Medicaid have left nearly one-third of people in Albany, one of the poorest cities in the state, uninsured.

Poor access to quality, affordable care has contributed to deep distrust of the system. Residents like Thomas see Phoebe as more of a barrier to good health than a safety net. He gave up on trying to find medical insurance or a doctor who would care for him without it.

Then, he began to get sick.

There are millions like Thomas across the United States and dozens of places like Albany — places with populations suffering high rates of chronic but treatable conditions, where the dominant institution is a hospital. ProPublica examines the country’s health care crisis in a five-part series called “Sick in a Hospital Town.” Watch this short documentary for a close-up of one man’s effort to overcome the obstacles to care.

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