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Diane Webber

@dwebbNPR

Work: Editing health policy @NPR Formerly @KHNews, @Politico, @Scholastic Fam: Raising college twins w/@GlennThrush

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Sen. Blumenthal of Conn. questioning Amy Coney Barrett at her confirmation hearing in 2020. Interesting context for the IVF news out of Alabama.

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Bottom line of this delightful listen /read: 'There's quite a lot of sex for pleasure out there in the animal kingdom.' Happy Valentine's Day : Short Wave npr.org/2024/02/14/119…

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Wanna know a little more about that Power to the Patients org that just had a     commercial? Here's a story from last year kffhealthnews.org/news/article/r…

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NEWS: Merrick Garland explicitly says that the delayed response by local police to the Uvalde mass shooter cost lives. 'Lives could have been saved, people would have survived.'

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Here’s how completed Medicaid renewals are stacking up by state. Lots of dark blue is good (successful ex parte renewal) and lots of dark red is not good (procedural losses).

Here’s how completed Medicaid renewals are stacking up by state. Lots of dark blue is good (successful ex parte renewal) and lots of dark red is not good (procedural losses).
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Happy that one of my 20-year-old twins is one of the 336K Americans who got a job last month in this strong jobs report -- and his brother is freelancing in journalism. No complaints! npr.org/2023/10/06/120…

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Love the concepts in this story, esp this quote: 'You are actually playing tai chi with nature, not boxing with nature.' npr.org/2023/10/03/120…

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I'm obsessing more than slightly, but I lived in NYC from 1986 until 2005 ... and I can count the number of times I saw this kind of flooding: zero.

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An enduring image of Feinstein — strength and composure in the wake of political violence… youtube.com/watch?v=U6-lW3…

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In a time of it doesn't have to be a named storm to cause damage & disruption. Also: Hellgate NYC is a cool, scrappy local news outlet.

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How did a school shooter get an AR-15 after failing a federal background check? He found one online. Legally. Inside the effort to close the 'Armslist' loophole. w/ Serge Kovaleski
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I'm in Austin this week. Today, Samantha Casiano testified against the state's abortion restrictions -- she was so overcome with emotion, she got physically ill on the witness stand. My story: npr.org/sections/healt…

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The same system that is ill-equipped to prevent people from falling into a health care crisis can then pursue them with big bills, says Corye Barbour Dunn, the public policy director at Disability Rights North Carolina. Via Fred Clasen-Kelly npr.org/sections/healt…

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We caught back up with two women whose stories we told earlier this year. Important read via Selena Simmons-Duffin Beautiful photography too. NPR Health News npr.org/sections/healt…

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