Cary Barbor
Cary Barbor is the local host of All Things Considered and a reporter for WGCU. She was a producer for Martha Stewart Radio on Sirius XM, where she hosted a live interview show with authors of new books called Books and Authors. She was a producer for The Leonard Lopate Show, a live, daily show that covered arts, culture, politics, and food on New York City’s public radio station WNYC. She also worked as a producer on Studio 360, a weekly culture magazine; and The Sunday Long Read, a show that features in-depth conversations with journalists and other writers. She has filed stories for The Pulse and Here & Now. In addition to radio, she has a career writing for magazines, including Salon, Teen Vogue, New York, Health, and More. She has published short stories and personal essays and is always working on a novel. She was a Knight Journalism Fellow, where she studied health reporting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and followed epidemiologists around Kenya and Alaska. She has a B.A. in English from Lafayette College and an M.A. in Literature from the University of Massachusetts.
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Florida Blue and NCH were able to come to a multiyear hospital-insurer agreement that will keep the Naples-based health system's doctors, hospitals and practices in-network for about 40,000 patients. -
Naples-based NCH may be considered out of network at the end of September if the two parties can’t come to an agreement. -
Among the state's greatest challenges are health care coverage, access and affordability for women, according to the Commonwealth Fund report. -
The hospital-insurer agreement expires Sept. 30, meaning Florida Blue clients would need to pay for their care at NCH hospitals and physician groups. Florida Blue is alerting customers of the impasse.
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When a storm hits, families with a member with ASD have even more hurdles to clear than others. A survey helped a Lee County advocacy group develop priorities. -
Clinicians in Southwest Florida are seeing this trend and trying to educate patients who are in relationships that may not be monogamous. -
Dr. Rahul Gupta, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, talks about the changes in marijuana science over the past half-century. -
The president hopes to provide $1.6 million in emergency funding for communities trying to tackle the opioid and fentanyl crisis. -
The program targets the aedes aegypti mosquito, an invasive species that is the vector for such dangerous viruses as dengue fever, Zika and chikungunya. -
All graduates of the nurse anesthesiologist program at Florida Gulf Coast University will have doctorates for the first time.
