
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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The president hopes to provide $1.6 million in emergency funding for communities trying to tackle the opioid and fentanyl crisis.
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The program targets the aedes aegypti mosquito, an invasive species that is the vector for such dangerous viruses as dengue fever, Zika and chikungunya.
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All graduates of the nurse anesthesiologist program at Florida Gulf Coast University will have doctorates for the first time.
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Alcohol often flows freely this time of year, which may be difficult for people trying not to drink.
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The Florida Department of Health reports 28 cases and six deaths in Lee County from Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterial infection that thrives in warm, brackish water.
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A physician and population health expert writes that differing state political priorities and economic circumstances has led to the country’s fragmented health policy.
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The hospital has suspended elective surgeries that require an overnight stay and is movng patients younger than 29 to the Golisano Children’s Hospital.
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The cards are important documents to keep track of. What if you misplaced yours and find yourself needing it?
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A new phone line to make appointments for the vaccine in Lee County opens Wednesday (jan. 13) for inoculations on Thursday and Friday (Jan. 14-15).
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Two types of common mosquito are insecticide-resistant.