Claire Donnelly
Health Reporter & Host of FAQ City PodcastClaire 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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The NASCAR playoffs visit Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend, and two drivers, Kurt Busch and Alex Bowman, won't be competing because of concussion symptoms. Some have pointed to NASCAR's new race car as the culprit.
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A more restrictive proposed abortion ban in South Carolina is likely dead after members of the state’s House of Representatives on Tuesday refused to approve Senate changes to the bill.
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The South Carolina House of Representatives on Tuesday is scheduled to consider an abortion bill passed earlier this month by the state Senate. The Senate measure would ban abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and narrow the exceptions included in the state’s existing “fetal heartbeat” law.
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After years of opposition, North Carolina's Republican leaders support Medicaid expansion. The holdup now centers on a disagreement over the state's Certificate of Need law.
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Roughly one-quarter of Mecklenburg County residents did not have a primary health care provider in 2021, according to a report released this week by the county health department.
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In Australia, which can serve as an early warning signal for the Northern Hemisphere, the country experienced its worst flu season in five years. That could be bad news locally.
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Amy Crockett and other South Carolina OB-GYNs have been in legal limbo since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. They’ve grappled with the state’s ever-shifting abortion laws and proposed legislation. They're also worried about criminal charges.
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A bill that would outlaw nearly all abortions in South Carolina is headed for a second day of deliberation in the state Senate on Thursday, after senators sparred over the measure for more than eight hours Wednesday.
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On Wednesday, the South Carolina Senate is set to debate a bill that would outlaw nearly all abortions in the state. After a Senate panel vote Tuesday, it no longer includes exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
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The Wake County Health Department said in a news release Thursday it had identified cases of monkeypox in two female county residents — North Carolina's first confirmed monkeypox cases in women.