Nicole Leonard is a health and science reporter for WHYY News. She joined the newsroom in 2022 after covering health care for Connecticut Public Radio. Before that, she was the health reporter for the Press of Atlantic City.
Nicole’s coverage has focused on addiction and the opioid epidemic, mental health, and health policy. She is an alum of Boston University and grew up in New Jersey.
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Philly community baby shower bridges resource gap for expecting mothers
Community baby showers have become crucial one-stop-shops for information and resources on pregnancy, childbirth, and child care.
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New Pa. nursing home staffing requirements in effect, with more changes slated for 2024
New regulations require more direct care hours for residents and tighter staffing ratios at nearly 700 long-term care facilities statewide.
2 years ago
About 73% of all firework-related injuries nationally occur in the two weeks before and after the Fourth of July.
2 years ago
Philadelphia police seize guns and $1.4 million in street drugs during 3-day operation in Kensington
The joint operation between local police and federal agencies including the FBI and DEA was targeted to Kensington’s open-air drug market.
2 years ago
1 year after Dobbs, Pa. clinicians say it’s time to revise the state’s physician-only abortion law
Pennsylvania law only allows physicians to perform abortions. Advanced practice clinicians say they want to be able to do the same.
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Philadelphia City Council paves way for $3 million funding bump for mobile crisis response services
Mobile crisis program supporters say additional funding will help to better staff professional teams and improve response times.
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Haddonfield, N.J., is a borough in South Jersey with a small Black population, but one that dates back to the 1700s, historians say.
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Philly takes first steps in distributing national opioid settlement funds with $1.9 million in grants for community and grassroots organizations.
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A Philadelphia surgeon’s invention and historic open-heart operation is celebrated 70 years later
Dr. John Gibbon invented the heart-lung machine and used it to perform the world’s first successful open-heart surgery on May 6, 1953.
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Medical illustration is a small field — there are about 2,000 certified professionals in the world, including a small team in Philly at CHOP.
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A new health center in Frankford aims to alleviate a ‘primary care desert’
Residents in Philadelphia’s Frankford neighborhood say the area has become a primary care desert, and lacks options for healthy foods.
2 years ago
Philly City Council members look to ban supervised injection sites in several neighborhoods
Several City Council members want to preemptively ban such sites in residential neighborhoods in certain parts of the city.
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