ACKC Investigates
High Cost of Cancer Drugs
In 2006, Mike from Pennsylvania was diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer that had spread to his ribs. His doctor prescribed Sutent (sunitinib), at the time, a newly approved Pfizer drug, which cost $179 for a 50 mg pill. The dosage for Sutent is one pill daily...
Water Contamination in Parkersburg, WV
The chemical site near Parkersburg, WV, source of the waste at the center of the DuPont class-action lawsuit. Source: The New York TimesThis story begins in October 1996 on Wilbur Earl Tennant’s farm outside of Parkersburg, WV, a town of 30,000 people located...
PFOA and Kidney Cancer: The Slippery Slope from Tap to Tumor
It was 2014. Michael Hickey wanted to sleep at night. He had uncovered a terrible truth that meant accusing the biggest employer, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, in the small, upstate New York town of Hoosick Falls, of polluting their drinking water. His friends...