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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A University of Pittsburgh study finds that since the Dobbs ruling, more young adults are seeking permanent contraception.
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The Pitt Men's Study — one of the longest-running studies on HIV and AIDS research — turns 40 this month.
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The sun broke through the morning's clouds in western Pennsylvania, providing area residents the chance to see the solar eclipse on Monday.
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As millions of Americans look to the sky on Monday to witness the total solar eclipse, a group of young astronomers from the University of Pittsburgh will be in a sparse pocket of the Texas Hill Country trying to crack a 200-year-old mystery about shadow bands.
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Monday's solar eclipse will give researchers another chance to study shadow bands, the thin wavy lines on the ground right before totality. They're hoping to crack a 200 year old mystery.
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While the city won’t be in the path of totality like its northern neighbors in Cleveland and Erie, approximately 97% of the sun will be covered in Pittsburgh.
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New federal regulations take effect Tuesday that aim to make treatment for opioid use disorder more patient-centered. How much Pennsylvanians benefit from these reforms depends on state regulators.
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A mifepristone case at U.S. Supreme Court could limit access to medication abortion in Pennsylvania.
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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.