
Lexi Krupp
Reporter, Science & HealthLexi covers science and health stories for 开云体育.
Previously, she was a science reporter at a public radio station in northern Michigan and a podcast producer at Gimlet Media in New York City. Her work has appeared on NPR, Here & Now, and in Audubon, Popular Science, VICE, and Medscape. Krupp also worked as a science teacher, and once spent a summer tracking mountain goats for the U.S. Forest Service.
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A program that paid for staff to support mental health and substance use disorders at primary care offices throughout the state will soon run out of money. Funding to keep the program going was not included in this year鈥檚 state budget.
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Agency leaders said they intend to remove supplemental fluoride from the market by the end of October.
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State death certificates show that 183 people died from opioid-related overdoses last year, down from a peak of nearly 250 deaths during the pandemic.
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Vermont is heading for a shortage of primary care doctors, especially in rural areas, and the problem starts where doctors do their training. A new residency program aims to change that.
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Dozens of families celebrated Mother's Day at a rally in Morrisville to express their support for Copley's birthing center.
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At a hearing Wednesday, a federal court judge said he would consider Mahdawi's potential release next week. Mahdawi is a student at Columbia University who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Colchester following a citizenship interview this month.
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A USDA program cut by the Trump administration would have provided more than $500,000 for farmers in the state to invest in flood mitigation and other conservation practices.
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The number of electric vehicles has doubled in the state over the past two years, but they're still below targets to meet Vermont's emission reduction requirements.
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Wild blue mussels have all but disappeared from New England鈥檚 coastline, a reality that鈥檚 been hard for people who harvest them for a living. Plus, Catholic Vermonters remember Pope Francis, who died Monday, Sen. Peter Welch pushes to permanently extend tele-health services for all Medicare recipients, labor negotiations between teachers and the school board sour in Rutland City, and hunters that sent a tooth from their deer to Vermont Fish and Wildlife can now find out how old that deer was.
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The matter before Judge William K. Sessions III concerns the Vermont federal court鈥檚 jurisdiction in a legal challenge to last month鈥檚 arrest of Turkish national R眉meysa 脰zt眉rk.