Kerry Grens
Kerry Grens is the senior health and science reporter at WHYY. Her stories span the beat, from the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals in goats to the role of fire in the New Jersey pine barrens to the culling of community hospitals. Kerry has been reporting for WHYY since February, 2008. She moved to Philadelphia in 2006, when she joined The Scientist as a staff writer. For more than a year the magazine sent Kerry on reporting trips around the country to write about discoveries in the life sciences.
Her return to radio was a return to her first love. Kerry started in journalism through a AAAS science writing fellowship at KUNC, an NPR affiliate in Greeley, Colorado. Following that she spent two years as New Hampshire Public Radio's health and science reporter. Kerry has a masters degree in biological sciences from Stanford University, where she did research in neuroscience, and a bachelors in biology from Loyola University Chicago. Kerry's stories appear on WHYY-FM during Morning Edition and All Things Considered and on WHYY-TV during First.
Recent stories by Kerry Grens:
- New advice: scale back on breast cancer screening, November 16th, 2009
- Protecting athletes from concussion, November 16th, 2009
- Infant mortality high among African Americans, November 16th, 2009
- Academy honors insect collector, November 13th, 2009
- Legal solutions to health inequalities, November 13th, 2009
- Philadelphia chromosome causes Abdul-Jabbar's cancer, November 11th, 2009
- Wyeth labs in NJ to close, November 10th, 2009
- House approves health care bill, November 9th, 2009
- Who's losing drug jobs, November 6th, 2009
- AARP endorses House health bill, November 5th, 2009
- Taxis stream in during SEPTA strike, November 3rd, 2009
- Health aides can't get to patients, November 3rd, 2009
- Could health reform relieve "job lock"?, November 2nd, 2009
- Nurses protest medical school event, October 29th, 2009
- Flu causes spike in ER visits, October 28th, 2009
- Non-profits seek help in health reform, October 27th, 2009
- Dealing with no health insurance, October 25th, 2009
- What's next for pharma whistleblowers, October 23rd, 2009
- Pink ribbon doesn't always mean charity, October 21st, 2009
- Villanova's campus is a stormwater lab, October 16th, 2009
- Drug maker Wyeth now called Pfizer, October 16th, 2009
- Lawsuit: antidepressants cause birth defects, October 14th, 2009
- Medical mistakes in New Jersey, October 14th, 2009
- Making vaccines faster, October 14th, 2009
- Insurer and hospital part ways, October 13th, 2009
- Getting benefits from insurers, October 13th, 2009
- Free or cheap medical care, October 9th, 2009
- H1N1 vaccine arrives, October 8th, 2009
- Phila schools to give out H1N1 vaccine, October 8th, 2009
- Biotech or bust, October 7th, 2009
