Lauren Bavis
Digital editor, Side Effects and WFYILauren Bavis is a digital editor based at WFYI in Indianapolis. She was part of the Side Effects Public Media team named Indiana’s Journalists of the Year in 2019 by the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists. With Jake Harper she co-hosted Sick, a podcast about what goes wrong in the places meant to keep us healthy. Bavis graduated from Towson University and moved to Indiana in 2012, where she began her career as a newspaper reporter. She previously reported on health and social services and was the digital projects and social media editor for The Herald-Times in Bloomington. She can be reached at lbavis@wfyi.org.
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Arianna Thompson had big plans for her pregnancy. A photoshoot. Two baby showers – one in South Bend, Indiana, where she lives, and one with family in…
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We're continuing to answer questions about the novel coronavirus and COVID-19. If you have a question, email health@wfyi.org, text “health” to 73224 or…
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These days, a familiar place – the grocery store – looks very different. They remain open as essential businesses, even as other stores close. But they’re…
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Years ago, doctors sometimes lied about whose sperm they used for artificial inseminations. Could it happen now? Some argue regulation is weak in the multibillion dollar fertility treatment industry.
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Most people knew James Strain as “Butch.” Dr. Cynthia Meneghini called him “Dad." She remembers him as a handyman who could fix anything. When she moved…
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Kazito Kalima was 14 at the start of the Rwandan genocide. Over just a few months in 1994, hundreds of thousands of Tutsi people in his country were…
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The opioid epidemic has ravaged cities across the United States. And just a couple of years ago, Dayton, Ohio, had one of the nation’s worst overdose…
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Some doctors see access to birth control as a tool in the fight to decrease maternal and infant mortality. Indiana has one of the nation’s worst rates of…
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In another step to lower its high maternal death rate, Indiana has joined the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health.The alliance is a national group…
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Melody Lynch-Kimery had a fairly routine pregnancy. But when she got to the hospital for delivery, she says things quickly turned dangerous.After an…