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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Medical aid in dying is legal in more than a dozen states, but not in Virginia, where efforts to authorize the practice have repeatedly stalled amid ethical and medical concerns. -
A pair of bills in the General Assembly raise questions about who should be allowed to provide preventive dental care. -
Dental care tops the list of needs for patients seeking care at clinics in Hampton Roads. -
Virginia’s opioid crisis has carried a $5.2 billion price tag, with some of the highest per-resident costs now concentrated in cities like Portsmouth and across Hampton Roads. -
Hospital bills often arrive without a detailed list of services. Hampton Roads patients say they struggle to decipher large balances with little explanation. -
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. -
Those who help people prepare for death say their work is rarely talked about publicly and often invisible, making the job harder. -
Hospital systems across the country are consolidating maternity care, leaving large geographic areas with limited services. -
Elias Zerhouni says political gridlock is standing in the way of meaningful health reform. -
For years, many Chesapeake patients in psychiatric crisis have had to seek inpatient care outside the region due to limited local capacity.
