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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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.
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The head of the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System has received a letter detailing a list of concerns from U.S. Sens. Bob Casey and John Fetterman, and U.S. Reps. Chris Deluzio and Summer Lee.
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Medicare is not required to cover contraception to prevent pregnancies; this harms younger enrollees according to a University of Pittsburgh study.
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So far, there have been 67 influenza-related deaths and 1,019 COVID-related deaths in the state during the 2023-24 respiratory virus season.
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Pennsylvanians purchasing Pennie health insurance have until Jan. 19 to select a plan for 2024.
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WVU Alzheimer's study gets exciting results with ultrasound.
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Pittsburgh addiction medicine experts say that "Dry January" is a good time to evaluate one's drinking.
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Pitt study endorses expansion of methadone access through the Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act, or MOTA.
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As the holiday season wraps up, many people risk giving — or receiving — the unwanted gift of respiratory illness.