Sarah Boden
Health & Science ReporterAs a teenager in Wisconsin, Sarah Boden worked after school as a telemarketer selling 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, where she's won numerous awards, including a 2023 Keystone Media Award for her series "The cost of forgetting: Dementia's tax on financial health." She also won a third-place Award of Excellence for her dementia series from the Association of Health Care Journalists.
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.
As a contributor to the NPR-Kaiser Health News Member Station Reporting Project on Health Care in the States, Sarah's print and audio reporting frequently appears on NPR and KFF Health News.
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Buprenorphine is prescribed far less in racially and ethnically diverse areas, according to new study from Pitt researchers.
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U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen discusses health care costs at Pittsburgh hospital.
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The U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium’s mandate is to find ways to develop and deploy artificial intelligence that’s trustworthy.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a rule that cuts the level of allowable soot pollution by 25%.
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Between 2018 and 2022, the number of syphilis cases in Allegheny County rose by 79%.
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Billions of dollars are coming to states to help them respond to the opioid epidemic, but Pennsylvania's drug paraphernalia law is creating conflict.
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FAVOR - Western PA plans to convert the Bolivar's former Methodist church into emergency housing.
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UPMC nurses say they feel tricked, lied to, and blindsided by their employer’s surprise announcement last week: The health care system plans to cut the hourly pay of nurses within its travel unit by 15%, starting Feb. 11.
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Organizations wanting to operate a fish fry need a permit from the Allegheny County Health Department.
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About one Allegheny County resident dies every day from COVID-19, and hundreds are hospitalized weekly, according to data from the Allegheny County Health Department.