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Obesity as a Business Model

  • Healthcare
  • Industry

AMSTERDAM - This investigative project explores how Big Food and pharmaceutical companies profit from both the causes and "solutions" to obesity. Research by The Investigative Desk for Follow the Money shows that Big Food not only promotes unhealthy eating habits, but also invests in products that are marketed as solutions to diet-related conditions.

Sophie Smeets | Follow The Money

The surrogacy business in Europe

  • Healthcare
  • Human Rights
  • Social affairs

ATHENS - The surrogacy landscape in Europe reveals a complex interplay of ethical issues and varied legislative frameworks as the demand for surrogacy services continues to grow in the Global North. This investigation explores the surrogacy practices in Spain, Greece, Ukraine, and Georgia, highlighting their distinct legal environments and market conditions.

Photo: Maria Volkova

The Ultra-potent Drugs Infiltrating Europe

  • Healthcare
  • Organised crime

TALINN - AMSTERDAM- A new and powerful type of drugs is rapidly emerging in Europe: nitazenes. In this joint investigation with Bellingcat and Postimees, the team looked at where these drugs are coming from and who they’re affecting. 

the ultra-potent drugs infiltrating Europe

Migration of Care

  • Healthcare
  • Migration
  • Work

BERLIN/PRAGUE – This investigation examines migration trends in the care sector, focusing on foreign workers in Germany, the migration of older people to the Czech Republic and the dependence of the Czech healthcare system on foreign professionals.

The Silent Threat of Untreated Wastewater

  • Environment
  • Healthcare
  • Industry

TBILISI / YEREVAN / ODESA / KHERSON –  The Silent Threat of Untreated Wastewater investigates the growing public health and environmental crisis caused by untreated wastewater in Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine.

The Fossil Fuel Ties of Medical Research

  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Healthcare

BERLIN / LONDON - The team of journalists investigated the financial ties between the fossil fuel industry and medical research. The data analysis reveals over 180 medical articles published in the last six years acknowledging funding and 1000 featuring authors affiliated with fossil fuel companies.  

Purple River: How German Lobbying Pollutes Mexico

  • Environment
  • Exploitation
  • Healthcare

MEXICO CITY - This investigation reveals the scary scale of industrial pollution in Mexico caused by the activities of Volkswagen, BASF, and Bayer, Germany-based companies. Legal loopholes and lax oversight allow their facilities to continue discharging toxic waste.

The Importance of Birth

  • Social affairs
  • Healthcare
  • Youth

BRUSSELS/SANTIAGO - Every second, 4.3 babies are born worldwide. For a woman, childbirth is one of the most profound physical and emotional events in her life. But birth, like the female body an sich, remains understudied and under-researched.

Stoffelijk

  • Social affairs
  • Healthcare
  • Science

ANTWERPEN - Valère, Veerle Duflou's partner, chose to donate his body to science. Ten years after his death, Veerle wants to know what happens to those bodies. She goes to the Antwerp University anatomy lab and follows the people to whom these bodies end up.

Viruses as Medicine

  • Healthcare
  • Science

AMSTERDAM - Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to public health, according to the World Health Organization. Especially the poorer part of the world has a lot to contend with, but rich(er) countries are also struggling with it.