Carmel Wroth
Carmel Wroth is a senior health editor for NPR's Science Desk, where she guides digital strategy for the health team and conceives and edits digital-first, enterprise stories and packages.
Formerly, she founded and managed Side Effects Public Media, a public radio collaborative covering public health in the Midwest. Wroth also served as an editor at Yoga Journal for five years. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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The health secretary announced a push to eliminate petroleum-based colorants from the food supply. But he'll need to get food companies on board. -
Researchers and advocates have pushed back at what they consider inaccurate and stigmatizing comments made by the health secretary, and note the causes of autism are complex. -
Health agency staffers describe a week of widespread uncertainty about who still has a job and how the work will get done as thousands of "reduction in force" notices went out beginning April 1. To many it's the opposite of "government efficiency." -
Federal health agencies have to slash their spending on contracts by more than a third, on top of the 10,000-person staffing cuts which started this week. -
Staffers began receiving termination notices this morning as part of a major restructuring at HHS. Some senior leadership are on their way out too. -
A survivor of childhood polio, Sen. Mitch McConnell was the only Republican in the Senate to vote no. Here's how he explained his vote. -
Two letters from different groups of senators call for answers from the Trump administration about pauses in scientific communications and funding. -
The influential US Preventive Services Task Force urged behavioral counseling for children and teens with very high BMI. Notably the group did not include Ozempic-like drugs in the recommendation. -
You might want to cancel that holiday party, and definitely dust off your face mask. Don't panic, but do step up your precautions. Here's how. -
Kids ages 5 to 11 will soon be able to get Pfizer's low-dose COVID vaccine. CDC director Rochelle Walensky agreed with a unanimous decision of a team of advisers that the benefits outweigh the risks. -
The weather is warming up and public spaces are starting to reopen. How do you decide what's safe to do? We have guidance to help you compare and evaluate the risks.
