Healthcare industry
Cashing in on Covid: Ghana hospital workers sell PPE for personal profit
| BBC | More than 2,000 medical workers in Ghana have been infected by coronavirus since the outbreak began. The country has faced a severe lack of essential protective equipment like face shields, masks and suits. Our investigation with Anas…
Killed in Hospital
| BBC Panorama | An official inquiry has found that more than 450 patients had their lives cut short at an NHS hospital. Many were given fatal doses of painkillers even though they were not terminally ill and had only…
Collective
| VPRO | Op 30 oktober 2015 brak er in nachtclub Colectiv in Boekarest een grote brand uit. Het werd een van de grootste rampen uit de recente Roemeense geschiedenis, met aanvankelijk 27 doden en 180 gewonden. Binnen enkele dagen…
- 2020
- Corruption
Outbreak
| Frontline | FRONTLINE tells the vivid, inside story of how the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak began, and why it wasn’t stopped before it was too late. Filmmaker Dan Edge spent months on the ground in West Africa, tracing the outbreak’s…
- 2015
- Deficient government
Flint’s Deadly Water
| Frontline | A FRONTLINE documentary, drawing from a two-year investigation, uncovers the extent of a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak during the Flint water crisis — and how officials failed to stop it.
- 2019
- Deficient government
Coronavirus Pandemic
| Frontline | How did the U.S. become the country with the worst known coronavirus outbreak in the world? FRONTLINE investigates the American response to COVID-19 — from Washington state to Washington, D.C. — and examines what happens when politics…
- 2020
- Science fraud, Fake
Opioids, Inc.
| Frontline | The story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud. With the Financial Times, FRONTLINE investigates how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller 50 times stronger than heroin.
- 2020
- Bribery, Business ethics
Sick Around America
| Frontline | As the worsening economy leads to massive job losses — potentially increasing the ranks of the tens of millions of Americans without health insurance — FRONTLINE travels the country examining the nation’s broken health care system and…
- 2009
- Business ethics
Doctor Hotspot
| Frontline | New Yorker writer and FRONTLINE correspondent Atul Gawande reports on a doctor in Camden, N.J., who actually seeks out the community’s sickest — and most expensive — patients. Dr. Jeffrey Brenner and his team are pioneering a…
- 2011
- Business ethics
Dollars and Dentists
| Frontline | Dental care can be a matter of life and death. Yet millions of Americans can’t afford a visit to the dentist. An investigation by FRONTLINE and the Center for Public Integrity reveals the shocking consequences of a…
- 2012
- Deficient government