KATHERINE EBAN, an award-winning investigative reporter, writes for Fortune, Self, Vanity Fair and other national magazines. She has worked at Conde Nast Portfolio, the New York Times, New York, the New York Observer, and ABC News. Her work has been featured on national news programs including 60 Minutes, 20/20, Nightline and NPR.
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Stolen, compromised, and counterfeit medicine increasingly makes its way into a poorly regulated distribution system, where it reaches unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on its effectiveness. Tragically, we cannot trust the purity of the costly drugs supplied by our most reputable drugstore and hospital pharmacies. read more
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“OxyContin: Purdue Pharma’s painful medicine,” Fortune Magazine
11/09/11
What the strange saga of Purdue and its $3 billion drug tells us about our national dependence on painkillers.
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“The Hidden Dangers of Outsourcing Radiology,” Self Magazine
10/28/11
That scan of your brain, bones or breasts you got last Tuesday? It might have been read by someone who isn't a doctor and lives 12 time zones away. If, that is, anyone has bothered to read it at all.
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“The War Over Lipitor,” Fortune
05/09/11
You'd think that in this era of generic-drug dominance, making the transition to a nonbranded version of Pfizer's vaunted cholesterol-fighting statin would be smooth, or at least controlled. And indeed, that's precisely how it seemed -- until just a few months ago. Now the process appears to have unraveled, leaving serious questions about who will make the cheaper form of Lipitor, whether the price will really drop, and most disturbing of all, whether patients will be able to trust that the medication is safe.
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“Drug Theft Goes Big,” Fortune
04/04/11
Organized gangs are stealing prescription medicine in increasingly audacious heists. That's a problem for Big Pharma and for patients, who can unknowingly buy stolen -- and sometimes dangerous -- medications...
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“What a Scientist Didn’t Tell the New York Times about His Study on Bee Deaths,” Fortune.com
10/08/10
Few ecological disasters have been as confounding as the massive and devastating die-off of the world's honeybees. The phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) -- in which disoriented honeybees die far from their hives -- has kept scientists, beekeepers, and regulators desperately seeking the cause.
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“Are You Buying Illegal Drugs?” New York Times
03/31/10
Last month, thieves cut through the roof of an Eli Lilly warehouse in Enfield, Conn, shimmied down a rope, disabled the alarms and made off with $75 million worth of psychiatric drugs, including the antidepressants Prozac and Cymbalta and the antipsychotic Zyprexa. It is thought to have been...
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Dangerous Doses on e-reader
01/16/12
Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply now available on e-reader.
http://amzn.to/wLcU3v
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Check out WNYC’s Leonard Lopate on my Fortune…
11/14/11
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Who says counterfeits don’t impact nat’l…
11/10/11
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You can read, “Painful Medicine,” about Purdue…
11/09/11
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“The Hidden Dangers of Outsourcing Radiology,” in SELF Magazine
10/28/11
You can check out my latest article "
The Hidden Dangers
of Outsourcing Radiology," in SELF Magazine
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What’s a consumer to do about getting safe drugs?
09/14/11
That was the question posed to me recently by Lisa McKenzie, a smart, vibrant woman – and fiercely good writer – who suffers from relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. She explores this question in her blog,
mslabrat.com.
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Lola, 2003-2011
09/11/11
On Tuesday night, we said a final goodbye to our big beautiful Newf.
Her enormous benign presence drew friends and admirers, literally stopped traffic and came to define a beloved neighborhood and an era in our lives.
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Listen to “Drug Theft Goes Big”
07/18/11
To hear more about, "Drug Theft Goes Big," podcast NPR, the People's Pharmacy
here.
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A shout out to Susan Gregory Thomas…
07/10/11
A shout out to Susan Gregory Thomas on her new book “In Spite of Everything”
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My new article, “The War Over Lipitor”
05/09/11
My new article, "The War Over Lipitor" in the Fortune 500 issue hits newsstands next week.
