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Shannon Firth

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Shannon Firth

Shannon Firth reports on breaking healthcare news for 麻豆传媒's Washington D.C. bureau She is also a member of 麻豆传媒's Enterprise & Investigative Reporting team. She has written extensively about mental health, addiction and sexual harassment in medicine as well as faulty medical devices. Her other interests include medical ethics, precision medicine and social determinants of health. Shannon earned her master's degree at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

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AMA over a grid of doctors faces of various genders and ethnicities.

Effort to Strengthen AMA Anti-Discrimination Policy Encounters Resistance

Critics of the draft resolution wonder if it's a "bridge too far"

AMA over a grid of doctors faces of various genders and ethnicities.

A National Task Force for Obesity? AMA Delegates Debate the Idea

Policy eyes reducing maternal mortality, COVID-19 deaths among minorities

AMA over a grid of doctors faces of various genders and ethnicities.

AMA Delegates Debate Making Sex on Birth Certificate Private

Also discuss improving doc access to tools to identify youth at "imminent risk" for suicide

Congress Wrestles Over How to Hold Sackler Family Accountable

Without a legal fix, OxyContin makers would evade responsibility for untold deaths, say Dems

A young Black woman holding her toddler daughter puts her hand out in a stop gesture to a physician holding a syringe

What Drives COVID Vaccine Hesitancy Among Moms?

Social pressures, misinformation are at play

A photo of Robert Kramer, president and CEO of Emergent BioSolutions

House Dems Grill Emergent Execs Over Spoiled J&J Doses

Mixed-up ingredients, wasted taxpayer dollars, potential insider training?

Bags of fentanyl tablets seized by the Drug Enforcement Agency

ED Docs Split Over Fentanyl Analogue Schedule 1 Extension

Will it save lives or prevent drug users from seeking help?

A bottle of Buprenorphine and Naloxone sublingual tablets over a photo of drug paraphernalia

Should 'X-Waiver' Be Nixed?

Relaxing "bupe" training requirement is last thing Congress should do, says GOP doc

A tired and unhappy female nurse in pink scrubs with her eyes closed and hand on her forehead

Job Loss Seen Driving Many Nurse Suicides

And a new study provides more data on risk for nurses versus physicians

A portrait of a female nurse hunched over with her head in her hands

The Nurses Are Not Alright

Four in 10 nurses under age 34 are isolated, lonely, or depressed

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