Melanie Evans
Reporter and Producer at Tradeoffs
Hospital reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Reach me at [email protected].
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2 days ago |
houstonpublicmedia.org | Dan Gorenstein |Melanie Evans
eKatherine Wells has been an epidemiologist working to protect the public from disease outbreaks for 25 years. Until January, she had never encountered measles. “I mean, we considered measles eradicated in the United States,” she said. Now, as public health director for Lubbock, Texas, Wells is at the center of a measles outbreak that has infected more than 700 people in Texas alone, sent more than 90 to the hospital and killed two otherwise healthy children.
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5 days ago |
npr.org | Dan Gorenstein |Melanie Evans
Instructions for a Measles vaccination is seen outside of the Lubbock Public Health facility on April 09, 2025 in Lubbock, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America Katherine Wells has been an epidemiologist working to protect the public from disease outbreaks for 25 years. Until January, she had never encountered measles. "I mean, we considered measles eradicated in the United States," she said.
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1 month ago |
tradeoffs.org | Melanie Evans
Episode TranscriptDan Gorenstein: From the first whisper that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could become America's top health official, questions started flying. Clip: Do we know how RFK Jr. is expected to reform Health and Human Services? What would Kennedy actually do as secretary of HHS? Clip: His nomination has drawn criticism from a host of public health leaders. DG: He's a vocal critic of vaccines ... Clip: ...there were some questions about Kennedy's stance on vaccines...
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1 month ago |
wfyi.org | Melanie Evans
April 4, 2025 Republicans in Congress are looking for ways to shrink federal spending. Some proposed cuts, like reductions in Medicaid, are unpopular. But there is one proposal that has broad bipartisan support: site-neutral payments. The Checkup's question is: What are site-neutral payments and why are rural hospitals concerned about that proposal?
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1 month ago |
tradeoffs.org | Melanie Evans
Episode TranscriptDan Gorenstein: Congressional Republicans are in a bind. They really want tax cuts. But that could put America much deeper into debt unless they also cut federal spending. Republican lawmakers will need to slash hundreds of billions of dollars and they are targeting health care for a lot of those savings. Patient advocates and medical groups are already sounding alarms. The budget fight ahead is going to be fierce.
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