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Despite Tragedy And A Fight To Live On Her Own, She Smiled

July 19, 2011 • Bylon Alexander dreamed of leaving the nursing home she lived in and move into her own apartment. But tragedy struck just as she got closer to that goal.

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At 88, A Chance To Be Independent Again

July 18, 2011 • After six years in a nursing home, Rosa Hendrix has moved into her own apartment. Hendrix was featured in an NPR News investigation that examined a new federal law that gives people with disabilities the right to receive long-term health care in their own homes.

GAO Criticizes Center For Brain Injuries, PTSD

July 12, 2011 • The military center that's supposed to lead the effort to find the best ways to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injuries and post traumatic stress disorder is in trouble, Government Accountability Office concludes.

GAO Criticizes Center For Brain Injuries, PTSD

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New Theory On 'Shaken Baby Syndrome'

July 1, 2011 • A new study suggests that babies can die by violent shaking alone, but not in the way doctors have thought. A series of autopsies suggests damage to the neck rather than the brain can be fatal.

Tammy Marquardt, now 39, spent 14 years in prison for a crime she didn't commit. Joseph Shapiro/NPR hide caption

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Post Mortem: Death Investigation In America

The Child Cases: Lessons From Canada

June 30, 2011 • Tammy Marquardt is one of at least a dozen people prosecuted for killing children in Ontario based on what later turned out to be tainted medical evidence. In just the past few years, courts have overturned several of those convictions, and more are under review.

The Child Cases: Lessons From Canada

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Agency: Mine Operator Kept Two Sets Of Records

Mine helmets and painted crosses sit at the entrance to Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine on April 5, as a memorial to the 29 miners killed there one year earlier. Jeff Gentner/AP hide caption

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Agency: Mine Operator Kept Two Sets Of Records

June 29, 2011 • At the Upper Big Branch mine where 29 men died in April 2010, there was an internal set of reports about safety problems and another set kept for federal inspectors that didn't mention the hazards, federal officials say.

Howard Berkes on 'Morning Edition'

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Rethinking Shaken Baby Syndrome

June 29, 2011 • The dispute over the common child abuse diagnosis is a bitter civil war. And now, the pediatric neurosurgeon who is credited with first observing the syndrome is speaking out for the first time about his concerns over how it is used in child abuse cases.

Rethinking Shaken Baby Syndrome

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Post Mortem: Death Investigation In America

Live Chat: 'The Child Cases,' 1 p.m. Wednesday

June 28, 2011 • Join reporters from NPR, PBS Frontline and ProPublica for a discussion on our joint investigation of more than two dozen flawed pediatric death cases, which sent innocent parents and caregivers to prison.

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$1 Billion In Coins That Nobody Wants

June 28, 2011 • A joint inquiry by NPR's Planet Money and Investigations teams found that more than $1 billion of unused dollar coins are the wasteful byproducts of another failed congressional effort to replace the dollar bill in everyday commerce.

$1 Billion In Coins That Nobody Wants

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Child Death Cases Repeatedly Mishandled

June 28, 2011 • NPR News Investigations, ProPublica and PBS Frontline analyzed nearly two dozen cases in which people have been accused of killing children based on flawed work by forensic pathologists. Some of the accused were later cleared. Others are still in prison. Read the complete investigation.

Child Death Cases Repeatedly Mishandled

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The Child Cases: Guilty Until Proved Innocent

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The Child Cases: Guilty Until Proved Innocent

June 28, 2011 • NPR News Investigations, ProPublica and PBS Frontline analyzed nearly two dozen cases in which people have been accused of killing children based on flawed work by forensic pathologists. Some of the accused were later cleared, others like Ernie Lopez, remain in prison.

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May 31, 2011 • NPR and The Charleston Gazette asked for materials to be made public. The justices opened up the initial injunction request and the response to it filed by some Massey executives. Massey operated the West Virginia mine where 29 men died last year.

Tuesday July 19, 2011

Monday July 18, 2011

Tuesday July 12, 2011

GAO Criticizes Center For Brain Injuries, PTSD

Friday July 1, 2011

Thursday June 30, 2011

The Child Cases: Lessons From Canada

Wednesday June 29, 2011

Howard Berkes on 'Morning Edition'

Rethinking Shaken Baby Syndrome

Tuesday June 28, 2011

$1 Billion In Coins That Nobody Wants

Child Death Cases Repeatedly Mishandled

Listen to Ernie Lopez's Story

Thursday June 16, 2011

Wednesday June 1, 2011

Tuesday May 31, 2011