Michelle R. Smith

6 days ago | thederrick.com | Laura Ungar |Michelle Smith |Michelle R. Smith

A mobile health unit is parked outside of Independence High School in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Matt Kelley - FR171845 AP CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

6 days ago | thederrick.com | Laura Ungar |Michelle R. Smith

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee.

6 days ago | the-independent.com | Laura Ungar |Michelle R. Smith

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

3 weeks ago | nbcwashington.com | Michelle R. Smith |Michelle Smith

AP Photo/Ben Curtis, FilePresident Donald Trump's new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of mushrooms helped her find a romantic partner. Dr. Casey Means' recommendation to consider guided psilocybin-assisted therapy is notable because psilocybin is illegal under federal law.

3 weeks ago | couriernews.com | Michelle Smith |Michelle R. Smith

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - President Donald Trump's new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of mushrooms helped her find a romantic partner. Dr. Casey Means' recommendation to consider guided psilocybin-assisted therapy is notable because psilocybin is illegal under federal law.