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Jackie Stock, 33, sits for a portrait in her living room as her street is reflected in her screen door on Wednesday, July 11, 2018, at her Hazelwood home. Stock, a housekeeper at Mercy's environmental services, says she doesn't have enough money once she pays for food, rent, bills, and transportation to afford a rent increase if Amazon's new HQ2 were to drive up rental prices in the neighborhood. (Stephanie Strasburg/Post-Gazette) Heinzelwood0722
Alicia Airs, 40, a long-time sufferer of Rheumatoid Arthritis, poses for portraits at her house on Friday, May 26, 2017 in Youngstown, Ohio. Airs had an adverse reaction to the new RA drug Actemra she is trying to manage her symptoms, which caused her heart to race and other side effects. From STAT's investigative piece by Charles Piller: "The Food and Drug Administration has received reports on 1,128 people who died after taking Actemra, and has reviewed its safety several times since it was approved. But the agency doesnÕt have sophisticated tools to determine whether the drug was a culprit or a bystander in those deaths. Though the agency is charged with monitoring the safety of prescription drugs, it doesnÕt verify the side-effect reports it receives. The documents often lack crucial information, and they donÕt prove that Actemra was the cause. Still, they can be telling." Read more at STAT here.
Alicia Airs, 40, a long-time sufferer of Rheumatoid Arthritis, poses for portraits at her house on Friday, May 26, 2017 in Youngstown, Ohio. Airs had an adverse reaction to the new RA drug Actemra she is trying to manage her symptoms, which caused her heart to race and other side effects. From STAT's investigative piece by Charles Piller: "The Food and Drug Administration has received reports on 1,128 people who died after taking Actemra, and has reviewed its safety several times since it was approved. But the agency doesnÕt have sophisticated tools to determine whether the drug was a culprit or a bystander in those deaths. Though the agency is charged with monitoring the safety of prescription drugs, it doesnÕt verify the side-effect reports it receives. The documents often lack crucial information, and they donÕt prove that Actemra was the cause. Still, they can be telling." Read more at STAT here.
Kim Bowles at her Pittsburgh, Pa. home in July 2018. (Stephanie Strasburg for Cosmopolitan)
Boxing coach Mike McSorely stands for a portrait in the doorway to the Conn-Greb Gym in North Oakland on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016.
Christian Yingling stands for a portrait in his militia uniform on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017 in his neighborhood in Derry. Yingling is the leader of the Pennsylvania Lightfoot Militia, based out of Latrobe. Yingling's group went down to Charlottesville where they tried to break up and dissolve physical altercations between the two sides, says Yingling, a self-described Constitutionalist.
Riding OD Road
Boxing coach Mike McSorely stands for a portrait in the doorway to the Conn-Greb Gym in North Oakland on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016.
Riding OD Road
Alicia Airs, 40, a long-time sufferer of Rheumatoid Arthritis, poses for portraits at her house on Friday, May 26, 2017 in Youngstown, Ohio. Airs had an adverse reaction to the new RA drug Actemra she is trying to manage her symptoms, which caused her heart to race and other side effects. From STAT's investigative piece by Charles Piller: "The Food and Drug Administration has received reports on 1,128 people who died after taking Actemra, and has reviewed its safety several times since it was approved. But the agency doesnÕt have sophisticated tools to determine whether the drug was a culprit or a bystander in those deaths.Though the agency is charged with monitoring the safety of prescription drugs, it doesnÕt verify the side-effect reports it receives. The documents often lack crucial information, and they donÕt prove that Actemra was the cause. Still, they can be telling." Read more at STAT here.
Riding OD Road
Riding OD Road
Riding OD Road
Alicia Airs, 40, a long-time sufferer of Rheumatoid Arthritis, poses for portraits at her house on Friday, May 26, 2017 in Youngstown, Ohio. Airs had an adverse reaction to the new RA drug Actemra she is trying to manage her symptoms, which caused her heart to race and other side effects. From STAT's investigative piece by Charles Piller: "The Food and Drug Administration has received reports on 1,128 people who died after taking Actemra, and has reviewed its safety several times since it was approved. But the agency doesnÕt have sophisticated tools to determine whether the drug was a culprit or a bystander in those deaths.Though the agency is charged with monitoring the safety of prescription drugs, it doesnÕt verify the side-effect reports it receives. The documents often lack crucial information, and they donÕt prove that Actemra was the cause. Still, they can be telling." Read more at STAT here.