Melody Petersen
@MelodyPetersen
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Reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Former NY Times. Author of Our Daily Meds, a book about the drug industry. IA Hawkeye. Contact: [email protected]
Los Angeles, CA
Joined January 2012
Have a great memory? You may still be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s under a controversial plan by a group with heavy ties to pharma companies
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An electric line repaired after the deadly Eaton wildfire burst into flames last week. The line was less than a mile from where the wildfire ignited on Jan. 7 under an Edison transmission tower.
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Regulators criticized SoCal Edison for falling behind on inspecting transmission lines just months before the deadly Eaton fire. They said inspections of where lines had been spliced together were failing to find problems that might cause the wires to fall
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Calif. has built so much solar power it increasingly goes to waste. This is raising customer electric rates – already twice the nation’s average. The winners: AZ and other states, which CA pays to take the excess. Also making💰: Wall Street traders
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RT @EWidera: From pre-diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease in the cognitively normal, there is an ongoing push to label healthy individuals as s…
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Crews have begun chainsawing and shredding thousands of protected Joshua trees to make way for a sprawling solar field in the Mojave Desert. Century-old trees become a pile of dust. “Once the trees go through the shredders, they vanish”
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In California, power-hungry data centers needed for AI increase electric bills and raise risk of blackouts
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New drug’s deadly side effect obscured by ‘soothing acronym,’ doctors say. Industry-funded group at the Alzheimer’s Association named the complication ‘ARIA.’ It has nothing to do with music
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California solar project set to raze thousands of protected Joshua trees, many thought to be a century old. “Let’s destroy the environment to save the environment. That seems to be the mentality”
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Bill to scrutinize new electric fee that will hit most California households dies in Assembly committee. The fee was pushed through by the Newsom administration and asked for by PG&E
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Ignoring complaints by electric customers across California, a state panel voted unanimously Thursday to fundamentally change how power is billed by adding a new monthly fixed fee
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With almost no public debate, California lawmakers passed a complex energy bill that upended how most homes are billed for electricity by reducing the incentive to turn out the lights. The legislation was what PG&E asked for
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RT @deb_cohen: Who benefits from plans to expand the definition of Alzheimer’s disease? Drug and testing companies, for sure. For people—wh…
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A bill that could decrease the estimated 5 million prescription errors made by California pharmacies each year now sits on @GavinNewsom's desk. Here is my story detailing how patients have been harmed by these mistakes
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How to avoid a potentially deadly pharmacy error, according to experts
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RT @DanBeucke: NYT with new evidence to support a story that @MelodyPetersen revealed in 2016.
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RT @FearLoathingBTX: Trial investigators can “earn phenomenal amounts” for the patients they recruit, but neither they nor their for-profit…
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Key read for anyone worried about #Alzheimer’s – including in people they care about. A grandmother, worried about her memory, signed herself up for a drug trial. Her family doesn’t believe she read the consent, which listed death as a risk #medicalethics
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