How FOIA Requests Signaled Problems With a “Bionic Pancreas”
At a federal advisory panel meeting in 2018, a biomedical engineer named Ed Damiano stepped to the microphone – not just...
FOIAengine: Advocates on Both Sides Push FDA for Data as a Senate Investigation Begins
Even before Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) walked into a March 11 news conference to kick off...
FOIAengine: How FOIA Requests Pointed to Problems at Boston Scientific
Months before Boston Scientific expanded its urgent warning this month about the risk of sudden death from its Accolade pacemakers,...
FOIAengine: How a Grassroots Movement Saw New Evidence of a Conspiracy
In December, a retired California Highway Patrol officer named Wilma Stone filed an unusual Freedom of Information Act request...
FOIAengine: Hundreds of Requests Probing How FDA Weighs Risk and Responds to Warnings
A new tranche of just-released Freedom of Information Act requests from news organizations shows how reporters are...
FOIAengine: Media Requests Were Warnings, Months Before Bad News Hit
In the early days of the Covid pandemic, there was big money on the line as pharmaceutical companies scrambled to...