Sarah Boden is a journalist at WHYY. She covers a range of topics including public health, health news, and consumer health, with a particular focus on medicine, healthcare, and alternative medicine. Sarah's work has been featured in numerous outlets, including NPR, Kaiser Health News, and WFMZ-TV.
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News brief Topics Climate change is moving where the malaria hotbeds are in Africa, forcing new regions to contend with the mosquito-borne disease.
By: Sarah Boden
Community health centers in Washington and Idaho have adopted new methods of screening for cervical cancer at different rates, which a recent study
By: Sarah Boden
News brief Louisiana beachgoers are being warned to stay out of the water if they have any kind of wound, including cuts or scraps, because of an outbreak of a flesh-eating bacterium.
By: Chris Dall, Sarah Boden
President Donald Trump is calling to "break up" the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, which would require more visits and shots, instead of using a two-dose regimen to deliver the three immunizations.
By: Sarah Boden
Global cases of congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) have dropped 70% since 2012 as vaccine uptake soared, but they rebounded slightly in 2024, scientists
By: Sarah Boden
News brief Lyme disease is expanding into southern Appalachia, and a town in the Blue Ridge Mountains appears to be on the edge of this growing territory.
By: Sarah Boden
School starts soon in north-central Colorado and pediatrician Shen Nagel, MD, is bracing for the possibility of a measles outbreak.
By: Sarah Boden
News brief Information that links vaccination to healthy aging might encourage more older adults to get recommended immunizations, particularly
By: Sarah Boden
A combination of dropping vaccination rates and skepticism – if not hostility – toward vaccination at the highest levels of HHS, resulting in conflicting federal messaging on vaccination, have created an opening for measles, widely considered the most contagious infectious disease known to humans.
By: Sarah Boden
Rats weren't to blame for bringing plague to a Spanish island in 1820 argues new research published yesterday in PNAS.
