Laura Santhanam
Health Reporter and Coordinating Producer for Polling at PBS NewsHour
Health reporter+coordinating producer for polling @NewsHour, mom x 2, Mississippi expat. 2024-2025 Knight-Wallace Fellow
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1 week ago |
pbs.org | Laura Santhanam
Detecting tuberculosis can be tricky. The time between getting infected and presenting with symptoms can span months or even years. To trace this contagious disease, Melanie Chitwood, a postdoctoral associate who studies the epidemiology of microbial diseases, worked with colleagues at Yale University to sequence the bacteria’s genomic data, using that as a signal to detect transmission. Generations ago, public health workers in the United States had snuffed out most tuberculosis transmission.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Laura Santhanam
2 days agoStop the summer brain drain by getting your kids hooked on reading this summer. This is part two of the 10th annual KCRA summer beach reads series. Last week, we took a look at the best summer beach reads for adults with Tina Ferguson, owner of "Face in a Book" bookstore.
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1 month ago |
pbs.org | Laura Santhanam
One federal grant program changed the trajectory of Joshua Sparks’ life. Now, that program is at risk. As a teen, Sparks knew he wanted to go to college and become a teacher. But growing up in rural Kentucky in a low-income household without role models who had attended college, he didn’t know where to start. He found the help he needed in the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) initiative.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Laura Santhanam
NowA fight between two girls at a Texas high school graduation party left one graduate dead, authorities said. Andrew Farias, 18, was killed during the dispute at a home in the Austin suburb of Uhland, Fox 7 reported. Uhland police officers and Texas Rangers responded to the home May 25 amid reports of …
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1 month ago |
pbs.org | Laura Santhanam
The FDA will no longer recommend annual COVID vaccinations for healthy people younger than age 65, officials said this week. Adults over age 65 and anyone over 6 months with one or more chronic or underlying health conditions, such as asthma, cancer, diabetes or pregnancy, are still recommended to get an updated shot.
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