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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As billions from opioid settlements pour into states, Pennsylvania's efforts against addiction could be hamstrung because clean syringes could be considered illegal drug paraphernalia.
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Alzheimer's Association report finds that 11.5% of Pennsylvanians who are 65-plus have Alzheimer’s disease.
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Two state representatives from Allegheny County are drafting bill to raise the wages of home care workers.
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Pennsylvania is one of a dozen states where providing drug users with clean syringes to help prevent infection is not authorized. Now there's a push to change the state law.
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Rep. Jim Struzzi discusses syringe services bill at Bolivar town hall meeting.
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University of Pittsburgh study finds therapy should be integrated into cancer care.
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Allegheny County’s Board of Health approved updates to the health department code that oversees rental units but did not establish a housing advisory board.
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Allegheny County’s Board of Health is set to vote Wednesday on proposed changes to Article VI — the main county code provision that governs the work of the Health Department in regulating housing.
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The University of Pittsburgh is one of more than 70 sites across the United States and Canada to collaborate on the AHEAD study, which targets amyloid plaque in the brain.
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Buprenorphine is prescribed far less in racially and ethnically diverse areas, according to new study from Pitt researchers.