Ike Swetlitz is a health journalist for Bloomberg News based in Boston, MA. Previously, he worked for Searchlight New Mexico, a non-profit journalism organization covering New Mexico, and STAT, the national health and medical science publication. Ike graduated with a physics degree from Yale and enjoys holding people in power accountable.

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Featured Stories
“A Lucrative Vein: Patients, doctors and former employees claim Modern Vascular, the national arterial disease treatment chain, pushes unnecessary treatments and patients stuffer,” Searchlight New Mexico, June 22, 2021.

Investigation of threat assessments in schools:
"Who’s the Threat? Hundreds of special ed students ID’d as potential threats," Searchlight New Mexico, October 15, 2019

Genetically engineered mosquitos could stop malaria (reported from Burkina Faso):
"In a remote West African village, a revolutionary genetic experiment is on its way — if residents agree to it," STAT, March 14, 2017