Kate Wells
Kate Wells is a Peabody Award-winning journalist and co-host of the Michigan Radio and NPR podcast Believed. The series was widely ranked among the best of the year, drawing millions of downloads and numerous awards. She and co-host Lindsey Smith received the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Judges described their work as "a haunting and multifaceted account of U.S.A. Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s belated arrest and an intimate look at how an army of women – a detective, a prosecutor and survivors – brought down the serial sex offender."
Wells and her family live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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A $10,000 grant helps trans teens and young adults afford therapy, and connects them with therapists who are experts in LGBTQ mental health. -
But while abortions increased in states like Michigan, the nation saw a cumulative 25,000 fewer abortions in the nine months since the court’s decision.
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The National Eating Disorders Association took down a controversial chatbot, after users showed how the newest version could dispense potentially harmful advice about dieting and calorie counting.
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The National Eating Disorders Association has indefinitely taken down a chatbot after the bot produced diet and weight loss advice. The nonprofit had already closed its human-staffed helpline.
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In recent years, the demands on the NEDA helpline, and the humans who ran it, escalated. The organization says it was unsustainable. But some have worries about new plans for an online chatbot.
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The National Eating Disorders Association is shutting its telephone helpline down, firing its small staff and hundreds of volunteers. Instead it's using a chatbot — and not because the bot is better.
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Immunizations for toddlers still haven't returned to pre-pandemic levels. That raises the risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks, like the recent measles outbreak in Ohio that sickened more than 80 kids and hospitalized more than 30. (None of those children were fully vaccinated.)
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Doctors in Michigan say the pending Supreme Court ruling on the abortion medication mifepristone is causing confusion and uncertainty.
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Hypertension is the leading cause of pregnancy-related deaths in the state. So Detroit paramedics are doing blood pressure checks with high-risk moms in their homes.
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Sick children overwhelmed hospitals this past fall and winter, exposing vulnerabilities in the nation's ability to care for its youngest during a crisis.
