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The San Diego VA has repeatedly lied about why it’s changing drug treatments for veterans at high risk of suicide, documents show. Read More »

Following an inewsource report that the VA San Diego Healthcare System has stopped paying for a drug treatment that helps suicidal veterans, a panel of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has begun investigating the decision. Read More »

Ketamine has shown promise in derailing suicidal thoughts among patients resistant to other treatments. The San Diego VA has started pulling veterans off the drug to treat them instead with a controversial nasal spray promoted by President Trump. Read More »

inewsource interviewed San Diegans directly affected by COVID-19 to piece together a picture of the harrowing tradeoff health officials must make: appease struggling citizens who are pushing for a return to normal or guard against an influx of cases in southern San Diego County that could devastate those communities. Read More »

As novel coronavirus cases rise in the U.S., the CDC has warned that certain populations are at higher risk of developing severe illness if they contract the respiratory virus. Read More »

The economic impact of the novel coronavirus has likely already affected every industry in San Diego, including commercial fishing. Read More »

inewsource published a two-part investigation last week called REWIRED. The stories detail an experimental brain treatment, a Navy SEAL’s psychotic break and an internal investigation at the University of California San Diego, one of the country’s top research institutions. Since the articles are lengthy, we compiled the top seven takeaways from the investigation for the TL;DR crowd. The only thing ... Read More »

The nonprofit First Amendment Coalition sued San Diego County for records of sexual harassment in July 2018. Read More »

Leadership from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs answered questions at a congressional hearing Wednesday about inewsource’s investigation into dangerous liver research conducted at the San Diego VA and poor oversight of the VA healthcare system. Read More »

Congress will investigate a Veterans Affairs office after inewsource exposed shoddy reviews of a dangerous San Diego liver study. A new analysis shows the VA’s Office of the Medical Inspector has a history of poor investigations into veteran care. Read More »