Karen Shakerdge
Reporter/Producer - HealthKaren Shakerdge covers health for WXXI News. She has spent the past decade asking people questions about their lives, as a documentary film producer, oral historian and now radio reporter.
Karen spent months producing Exited, a podcast about young people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities navigating life after high school, which she developed with colleagues at NPR’s Story Lab.
Karen has a bachelor's degree in cultural studies and media studies from The New School and a master's degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
In 2016, the Association of Health Care Journalists recognized her story about liver transplantation with an Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. Her two-part story about donor breast milk banks received an Outstanding Public Affairs Program award from the New York State Broadcasters Association in 2017.
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How the Republican health care bill could play out would look different from state to state. Some states would pursue waivers, meaning they wouldn’t need…
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A tourist from India with measles visited several places in the region on May 11 and May 12, 2017, exposing others to the disease.“What’s potentially…
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Under the American Health Care Act, people would not be penalized for not having health insurance, initially. They would only encounter financial penalty…
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The Medical Society of New York State has decided to ask doctors for their opinions on physician assisted dying.The medical society, which has about…
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Governor Andrew Cuomo has updated coverage guidelines for infertility treatment that could be especially significant for single women and same sex…
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The Department of Financial Services has slapped Excellus Health Plans with a $1 million fine for multiple violations of New York insurance law.For one,…
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One disability rights activist says that often people are too quick to assume someone with a disability can’t make their own decisions. Emily Ladau, a…
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Last week the Supreme Court unanimously ruled on a case that some say may change special education.“It is a big victory,” says Martha Mock, associate…
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Mary Rivera knew something wasn’t right, but she still didn’t go to the doctor.“I knew that my uterus wasn’t where it should've been, but I didn’t have…
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The National Institutes of Health could face some major changes if the proposed budget from the Trump administration released earlier this week…