Jan 23, 2025 · Goodyear Agrees to Remedy Carcinogen Emissions From Niagara Falls Plant. The consent order with New York regulators, which includes a penalty, comes after months of investigative reporting by WBFO and Public Health Watch.

2 days ago · Mass removal of information from US websites endangers health, lawsuit says. A group of clinicians is challenging the Trump administration’s decision to remove massive amounts of public health information from government websites, citing dangerous gaps in science that is used to guide health and medical decisions.

Apr 6, 2023 · The Watch: November 14, 2024. Childbirth costly for many low-income Americans Low-income people with commercial insurance often have higher childbirth costs than people with Medicaid, a new study in Millbank Quarterly finds.

Jan 23, 2025 · Public Health Watch is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization that focuses on threats to America’s well-being. 2110 Ranch Road 620 South

1 day ago · The California Department of Public Health has unveiled an online dashboard that tracks cases of the lung disease silicosis among fabricators of artificial-stone countertops in the state.. The dashboard, to be updated weekly, includes a running tally of cases (247 as of February 7) and deaths (15); geographic distribution of …

Jan 16, 2025 · Anatomy of an Investigation ‘sweat and blood … and even death’ by Public Health Watch July 28, 2024. Two years ago, Public Health Watch’s editor-in-chief got a tip about an unpublicized silicosis epidemic among immigrant workers in the LA area.

Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief Jim Morris is the founder of Public Health Watch and has been a journalist since 1978, focusing on public health and the environment. He is the author of “The Cancer Factory,” an investigative book on chemical exposures in the workplace published by Beacon Press in 2024. He has received more than […]

Our Mission We are the only nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom in the United States dedicated exclusively to investigating life-threatening public health inequities. Our mission is to improve people’s well-being through rigorous, data-driven journalism. Who We Are Based in Texas, we report throughout the country, with an emphasis on the Southwest. Our team comprises subject-matter experts led […]

Aug 16, 2021 · Today we unveil Public Health Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news site that will focus on the prevention of illness, injury and death. The timing is fortuitous, given the maddeningly resilient COVID-19 virus. But the idea of Public Health Watch has been percolating for more than two years. While we’re all preoccupied with the pandemic, […]

Sep 10, 2024 · Millions of Americans — nearly 1 in 12 by recent estimates — lack health coverage. In some states the numbers are much higher, like my home state of Texas, where about 1 in 6 people are uninsured.. Now, with the end of COVID-era policies that provided coverage for many low-income families, the ranks of the uninsured are growing.