KATHERINE EBAN is an award-winning investigative reporter, and a contributor at Fortune magazine. She also writes for 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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05/15/13
The epic inside story of long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy, the Indian drug company that makes generic Lipitor for millions of Americans.
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01/23/13
Consumers are told that generics are just like their name-brand counterparts. More medical professionals are starting to say that's not the case.
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06/27/12
A Fortune investigation reveals that the ATF never intentionally allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. How the world came to believe just the opposite is a tale of rivalry, murder, and political bloodlust.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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05/15/13
The epic inside story of long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy, the Indian drug company that makes generic Lipitor for millions of Americans.
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04/11/13
Katherine received Time Inc.'s 15th annual Luce award as "Newsbreaker of the Year" for her article, "
The Truth about the Fast and the Furious Scandal," on Fortune.com.
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03/14/13
Katherine received the 2013
Donald Robinson Award for Investigative Reporting from The American Society of Journalists and Authors for her article, "
The Truth about the Fast and the Furious Scandal," in Fortune Magazine.
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01/23/13
Read The Nation’s smart piece on the contradictions of the Fast and Furious investigation.
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01/23/13
Consumers are told that generics are just like their name-brand counterparts. More medical professionals are starting to say that's not the case.
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12/14/12
Katherine's work won two awards at the MIN 2012 Editorial and Design Awards: Best Investigative/ Technical Article (Editorial Print) for "The Stranger Reading Your X-Ray" in Self Magazine, and Best Single Article (Online) for "The Truth about the Fast and Furious Scandal" in Fortune Magazine.
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06/27/12
A Fortune investigation reveals that the ATF never intentionally allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. How the world came to believe just the opposite is a tale of rivalry, murder, and political bloodlust.
read more
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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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07/18/11
To hear more about, "Drug Theft Goes Big," podcast NPR, the People's Pharmacy
here.
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07/10/11
A shout out to Susan Gregory Thomas on her new book “In Spite of Everything”
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