Side Effects

Side Effects Public Media

Side Effects Public Media - Reporting on the public’s healthWe're a health journalism collaborative exploring the impacts of place, policy and economics on Americans' health. Our reporting sheds light on root causes of community-wide health problems—from chronic disease, to mental health and addiction, to infant mortality—and on new efforts to solve them.We have reporters based at WFYI, Indianapolis, KBIA, Columbia, Missouri and WXXI, Rochester, New York, and contributing reporters from other public radio stations around the country. While we don't have a strict geographical focus, we're intent on telling stories from under-covered communities and hidden-away places. 
Katy Yeager Gooding hugs her social worker Angela Davis on a visit with her baby Kennedy Gooding to Lily's Place, a treatment center for opioid-dependent newborns in Huntington, West Virginia.
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