Katia Riddle

6 days ago | wbur.org | Katia Riddle

HomeRadioHere & NowCDC's contraception team has been gutted. What does this mean for health care? A small team of researchers responsible for keeping clinicians up to date on contraception research has been cut. Doctors say it's hard to overstate how much they rely on the team's guidance when advising women about contraception. NPR’s Katia Riddle reports. This segment airs on June 2, 2025. Audio will be available after the broadcast.

1 week ago | mprnews.org | Katia Riddle

To most people, the eight-person team was indistinguishable from the hundreds of other scientists and researchers cut in April during the mass firings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But for many clinicians who specialize in women's health, losing the team responsible for the CDC's contraception guidelines was a devastating blow to women's health.

1 month ago | kuow.org | Katia Riddle

VA employees have to report to work in person on Monday. That worries mental health care providers at the agency who say limited space will affect their ability to provide confidentiality to patients.

1 month ago | ctpublic.org | Katia Riddle

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1 month ago | kpbs.org | Katia Riddle

As a young child in New Orleans, Coty Raven Morris didn't make a distinction between learning music and learning anything else. "The things that I learned about history, about my culture, about other people's cultures, I learned in song and play," she says. "There were not specific music classes when I was in New Orleans," she says.