Sarah Boden
Health & Science ReporterWhen Sarah Boden was a junior in high school she was hired as telemarketer to sell cable internet and TV. Making unsolicited phone calls to taciturn strangers prepared Sarah for a career in journalism.
Today Sarah covers health and science for 90.5 WESA. Before coming to Pittsburgh in November 2017, she was a reporter for Iowa Public Radio where she won a regional Edward R. Murrow for her story on a legal challenge to Iowa's felon voting ban.
Sarah’s reporting has appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition Saturday and WBUR's Here and Now.
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Administrators at two western Pennsylvania nursing homes face federal charges and potential prison time. The CEO and four managers of Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center and Mt. Lebanon Rehabilitation and Wellness Center are accused of falsifying staffing documentation. -
With case counts holding steady, rising hospital admissions appear to have driven the CDC’s decision to change the COVID-19 community level to “high.” However, backlogged hospitalization data from the past month accounted for more than half of the 116 admissions reported by the health department on Thursday. Last week, the county reported 46 new hospitalizations.
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The number of new COVID-19 hospitalizations in Allegheny County dropped by nearly 70% this week. However, there were also more than 2,600 new cases, according to the county health department.
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Access to the monkeypox vaccine is expanding in Allegheny County as there are now several primary care providers that can administer the immunization.
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The union representing workers at Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania say management is dragging its feet in contract negotiations at a time when employees are being pushed to their limits.
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Severe storms on Saturday afternoon caused power outages throughout the Pittsburgh area.
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While case numbers dipped this week in Allegheny County, hospitalization and wastewater data indicate that transmission in on the upswing.
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An open letter signed by some 1,200 UPMC employees calls on leadership of the state's largest hospital system to do more to protect access to abortion
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Racial disparities in Allegheny County’s fatal drug overdose rates got worse last year. Now Black residents are more than twice as likely as whites to die. Data suggests the death rate for both races is being driven–at least in part–by cocaine laced with fentanyl, a strong and deadly opioid.
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Getting an abortion is often difficult as it can require travel, finding childcare and taking off work. That in combination with the strain out-of-state patients are placing on area abortion providers, means that access is even more restricted. Those that stand to lose the most access are Black patients and others from marginalized backgrounds.
