April Dembosky is the health reporter for The California Report and KQED News. She covers health policy and public health, and has reported extensively on the economics of health care, the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act in California, mental health and end-of-life issues. Her work is regularly rebroadcast on NPR and has been recognized with awards from the Society for Professional Journalists (for sports reporting), and the Association of Health Care Journalists (for a story about pediatric hospice). Her hour-long radio documentary about home funeralswon the Best New Artist award from the Third Coast International Audio Festival in 2009. April occasionally moonlights on the arts beat, covering music and dance. Her story about the first symphony orchestra at Burning Man won the award for Best Use of Sound from the Public Radio News Directors Inc. Before joining KQED in 2013, April covered technology and Silicon Valley for The Financial Times, and freelanced for Marketplace and The New York Times. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Smith College.
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More than 30 states have passed laws trying to rein in health insurance companies second guessing doctors, a policy called...
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This winter, California is seeing the largest outbreak of mushroom poisonings in at least the past three decades. In a typical...
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California just lowered its cannabis tax from 19% to 15%, to keep people buying on the legal market. But youth...
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Two years ago, California launched an experiment that lets judges order people with psychotic illness into care. Some counties are...
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In California, the state veterinarian banned chicken shows to limit the spread of bird flu. That left county fairs across...
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Pro athletes are increasingly speaking out about mental health challenges. In baseball, the San Francisco Giants have emerged as a...
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AI-generated speech can be heard in customer service and media. Now some patients who lost the ability to talk due...
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Only seven states have legalized human composting as a burial practice. That's why 29 percent of the bodies brought to... -
A prescription pill to treat postpartum depression hit the market in December, but most insurers do not yet have a... -
Research suggests the biggest source of pain for children in the health care system is needles. One California doctor says... -
A new approach to schizophrenia involves managing early psychosis symptoms and keeping young people in school or jobs. The treatment... -
A new approach to schizophrenia involves managing early psychosis symptoms and keeping young people in school or jobs. The treatment...