Claire Donnelly
Health Reporter & Host of FAQ City Podcast
Claire Donnelly is WFAE's health reporter. She previously worked at NPR member station KGOU in Oklahoma and also interned at WBEZ in Chicago and WAMU in Washington, D.C. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and attended college at the University of Virginia, where she majored in Comparative Literature and Spanish. Claire is originally from Richmond, Virginia.
Reach her at cdonnelly@wfae.org or on Twitter @donnellyclairee.
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Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with monkeypox virus, which is endemic to some African countries. Neither North Carolina nor South Carolina had identified a case as of Wednesday afternoon — but one health expert said it "wouldn't be a huge surprise." -
Federal regulators are reviewing a proposed merger between Charlotte-based Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health, a major hospital system in the Midwest. What could the proposed merger mean for health care prices?
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Hundreds of families lined up for free baby formula Tuesday at two StarMed Healthcare clinics in Charlotte. StarMed gave away roughly 1,100 cans amid the nationwide shortage.
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Workers at two of StarMed Healthcare’s Charlotte clinics on Tuesday will distribute roughly 360 cans of baby formula on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at noon.
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North Carolina health officials have reported seven additional cases of unusual hepatitis in children — bringing the total number of reported cases in the state to nine. The children had severe liver inflammation with no known cause.
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Atrium Health announced Wednesday it’s merging with Midwest-based Advocate Aurora Health. The combined systems will be headquartered in Charlotte and will operate 67 hospitals across Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina and Wisconsin, according to a news release.
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Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital is seeking participants for a clinical trial of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 6 months to less than 5 years old. There’s currently no federally approved coronavirus vaccine for children under 5.
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Abortion is currently legal in the Carolinas but with some restrictions. Providers in North and South Carolina performed a combined total of 35,472 abortions in 2020, according to numbers from the states’ health departments.
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It could become more difficult to get an abortion in North Carolina and South Carolina if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights case.
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North Carolina health officials are on the lookout for unusual hepatitis cases in children after two children in the state had severe liver inflammation with no known cause. The World Health Organization this month reported a global outbreak of hepatitis affecting at least 169 children ages 1 month to 16 years old.
