Kate Wells
ReporterKate Wells is a Peabody Award-winning journalist currently covering public health. She was a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her abortion coverage. Wells previously co-hosted Believed, a nine-part podcast series drawing millions of downloads and numerous awards. She and co-host Lindsey Smith received the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists.
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If you're under 65 and healthy, it's probably going to be harder. -
The case involves a former employee who says she was fired after requesting a religious exemption from providing gender-affirming care. The Trump administration has also launched an investigation. -
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says the health system's decision is not only "cowardly," it may violate the state's antidiscrimination law. -
The University of Michigan is the latest major healthcare provider to announce it will no longer offer gender-affirming care for minors under the age of 19, because of mounting pressure from the Trump administration. -
Since the program began in Flint last year, it’s distributed more than $13 million dollars to more than 3,000 families in Flint, Kalamazoo, Pontiac, Clare County and five counties in the eastern Upper Peninsula. -
Even otherwise healthy people can experience short and long-term health impacts. Here's what you can do about it. -
Local health officials say they've detected the bacteria at Allegria Village in Dearborn, where two people with Legionnaires' disease recently died. -
It's the latest community to launch the program that gives moms $1,500 during pregnancy, plus $500 a month for the first six months of the baby's life, no strings attached. -
No public exposure sites have been identified yet, health officials said, in an outbreak that has been "brewing since late June." -
RFK Jr.'s decision to remove the shot from the CDC's recommended schedule for the two groups has created confusion among patients and providers, health officials said.
