Nicole Leonard | WHYY
Nicole Leonard is a health and science reporter for WHYY News. She joined the newsroom in 2022 after covering health care for Connecticut Public Radio. Before that, she was the health reporter for the Press of Atlantic City.
Nicole’s coverage has focused on addiction and the opioid epidemic, mental health, and health policy. She is an alum of Boston University and grew up in New Jersey.
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In Philadelphia, canvassers are going door-to-door to warn some residents of the overdose rates in their neighborhood, and handing out Narcan, fentanyl test strips, and information on resources. -
About 1 in 5 people killed by police since 2015 were having a mental health crisis. Like other cities, Philadelphia is trying a new approach: sending along social workers to respond to those calls. -
Philadelphia addiction treatment experts hope that a new weekly injection medication for opioid use disorder will make it easier for people to enter long-term recovery. WHYY’s Nicole Leonard has more. -
If you search for an image of a human heart online, or a femur bone, or lungs, you will get thousands of images back in just a fraction of a second. -
Several Philadelphia council members want to preemptively ban supervised injection sites in five city districts that include the River Wards and parts of North and South Philly. -
A nationwide uptick in strep throat infections is the latest unintended consequence of lifted pandemic precautions, according to experts. -
A White House official recently met with addiction medicine experts in Philadelphia this week to look for ways to address the threat of xylazine, an animal sedative that is appearing in a record number of drug overdose deaths – locally and nationally. -
Experts say they’ve found the clearest evidence yet of a biomarker test for the second-most common neurodegenerative disease in the United States. WHYY’s Nicole Leonard reports. -
Picture a mobility device that looks a bit like a cross between a walker and a wheelchair. It has wheels, it has a seat, but it can transform in ways that allow people to use it sitting down or standing up. -
The Biden administration is appealing a court ruling by federal judge in Texas that could restrict access to mifepristone, a common abortion medication.
