Yiqing Wang
Health ReporterWang is WHRO News' health reporter. Before joining WHRO, she was a science reporter at The Cancer Letter, a weekly publication in Washington, D.C., focused on oncology. Her work has also appeared in ProPublica, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Voice of San Diego and Texas Monthly. Wang graduated from Northwestern University and Bryn Mawr College. She speaks Mandarin and French.
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The enhanced ACA premium tax credits, first expanded in 2021 and later extended through the Inflation Reduction Act, ended last year after Congress failed to renew them.
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Those who help people prepare for death say their work is rarely talked about publicly and often invisible, making the job harder.
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Hospital systems across the country are consolidating maternity care, leaving large geographic areas with limited services.
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Elias Zerhouni says political gridlock is standing in the way of meaningful health reform.
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For years, many Chesapeake patients in psychiatric crisis have had to seek inpatient care outside the region due to limited local capacity.
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More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, a number expected to rise sharply as the population ages.
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Tuition for health care graduate programs has risen steadily over the past decade as workforce shortages persist.
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A first-of-its-kind center at Virginia Wesleyan University is offering neurodivergent students more than academic help.
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Chronic diseases account for most health care spending in the United States, yet nutrition and lifestyle medicine remain limited parts of medical training.
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A new H3N2 flu variant now dominates U.S. cases and could bring a surge in infections and hospitalizations.