Lauren Bavis
Lauren a reporter and editor based at WFYI in Indianapolis. She maintains Side Effects' website, social media accounts (which you can follow on Facebook and Twitter) and newsletter (which you should sign up to get weekly). Lauren graduated from Towson University and moved to Indiana in 2012, where she began her career as a newspaper reporter. She reported on health and social services for the Bloomington Herald-Times. Her work has been recognized by the Indiana chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists and Associated Press Media Editors, as well as the Hoosier State Press Association.
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Nearly one in five Hoosier children doesn't have regular access to healthy food. At Richmond Community Schools in Wayne County, enough students qualify... -
On a sunny Saturday morning, Samantha Wilmot helped a customer pick a fresh cantaloupe the best way she knows how, by smell. Satisfied, she accepted a... -
More nurse practitioners are stepping up to meet the needs of Hoosier patients as Indiana grapples with a shortage of primary care doctors. -
As tensions over abortion access increase across Indiana and nationwide, a new report shows the number of Hoosier women who had abortions increased for...
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The manufacturer of a drug linked to Indiana's 2015 HIV outbreak spent more than $200,000 in 2016 promoting its opioid-based pain medication to doctors.... -
Researchers have known for decades programs that provide clean syringes to injection drug users lower transmission rates of diseases like HIV and... -
Courtney Reimlinger was breastfeeding her week-old son last year when she felt a pain in her chest. The pain was excruciating, the 23-year-old... -
Hoosiers did not stop signing up for Indiana's Medicaid expansion even though they had to pay into a health savings account. That’s according to new... -
Indianapolis health researchers hope the results of a new study will encourage policymakers to support nationwide Medicaid expansion. Medicaid, a... -
Patients are safer and health care costs are lower when providers electronically share patient information through health information exchanges,...
