John A. Jenkins

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A Litigation Wave for Biotech’s Medpace

FOIAengine: Requests to SEC Preceded Stock Troubles and a Surprise Resignation For a company that most Americans have never heard of, Medpace Holdings, Inc. (NASD:MEDP) sits remarkably close to the...

Beta Bionics: The Rise and Decline of a High-Flying...

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...

FOIA Requests Point to New Pressure Over Abortion Drugs

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...

The Deadly Tick-Tock of a Pacemaker Recall

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,...

The Epstein Files and MMTLP

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...

How Journalists Use FOIA as an Investigative Tool

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...