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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New research by the organizers of Rx Kids, a universal cash aid program for new moms and babies in Flint, found families in the program were less likely to be evicted or report postpartum depression. -
Some 14,000 Michigan patients who rely on Medicaid will be affected, Planned Parenthood of Michigan said Friday. -
The laws allow concerned family members, healthcare providers, and law enforcement to seek a court order temporarily barring someone from possessing guns, if they believe they're an imminent threat. -
If you're under 65 and healthy, you're going to have to attest to having an underlying medical condition (like pregnancy, obesity, or a mental health condition) that would qualify you as "high risk." -
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.
