Sarah Boden is a journalist at WHYY. She specializes in medicine and healthcare, covering themes such as public health, maternal health, healthcare administration, and patient care, with a keen interest in healthcare technology and alternative medicine. Sarah's work has been featured in numerous outlets, including NPR, Kaiser Health News, and WUNC (91.5 FM).
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By: Sarah Boden
A combination of dropping vaccination rates and skepticism – if not hostility – toward vaccination at the highest levels of HHS, resulting in conflicting federal messaging on vaccination, have created an opening for measles, widely considered the most contagious infectious disease known to humans.
By: Sarah Boden
Rats weren't to blame for bringing plague to a Spanish island in 1820 argues new research published yesterday in PNAS.
By: Sarah Boden
Catholic bishops in Florida are warning the state's attorney general to respect their religious liberty when it comes to parochial schools' approach to vaccine exemptions.
By: Sarah Boden, Chris Dall, Liz Szabo
Two people in Pennsylvania have died from measles, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health , the first US measles fatalities of the year.
One of the two unvaccinated people in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who died with measles was a newborn, but the exact cause of death is unclear.
By: Sarah Boden
Dueling narratives on whether measles was at fault for the death of a newborn in Pennsylvania intensified over the weekend.
By: Sarah Boden
As the number of unvaccinated children rises because of non-medical exemptions, some question the sincerity of parents who cite religion as their reason to forgo immunizations.
By: Sarah Boden
A mother in New York State who claims to oppose vaccines because of her Catholic faith lost an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court of the United
By: Sarah Boden
Since May, more than a half dozen petitions have been filed with the Supreme Court by people who claim mandatory vaccine policies have harmed their right to religious freedom. The issue is not going away.
By: Sarah Boden
News brief Denmark has eliminated congenital syphilis, despite an overall increase in the syphilis rate among Danish women of childbearing age.
