Yuki Noguchi
Yuki Noguchi is a correspondent on the Science Desk based out of NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. She started covering consumer health in the midst of the pandemic, reporting on mental health, vaccination, telehealth, and racial inequities in healthcare.
Noguchi started her career as a reporter, then an editor, for The Washington Post, primarily covering business and technology. Noguchi joined NPR as a business correspondent in 2008, just before the financial crisis and Great Recession. She has covered a wide range of issues, from the workplace to the earthquake and tsunami in her parents' native Japan in 2011. Her coverage of the impact of opioids on workers and their families won a 2019 Gracie Award as well as First Place and Best In Show in the radio category from the National Headliner Awards. Her work on medical debt, in partnership with Kaiser Health News, won a 2023 Gerald Loeb award and an award from the National Institutes of Health Care Management.
Noguchi grew up in St. Louis, likes to cook, has a degree in history from Yale and is raising two boys and two rescue dogs outside Washington DC.
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A record-breaking summer for foodborne illness prompted more consumers to grow produce at home. But experts say it's the farming practices, not size, that matters for food safety. -
Lung cancer is still the top cancer killer. But new developments are shifting what the future might hold for patients, as one man's cancer journey shows.
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Amid a record-setting outbreak of the diarrhea-causing parasite, food safety advocates say risks to food production are increasing.
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Last year's funding cuts to federal agencies that oversee foodborne illness outbreaks are being tested with the record cyclosporiasis outbreak in the U.S.
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It's been a bad summer for foodborne illnesses -- from a record-breaking cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce to salmonella infections linked to jalapeños.
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Recent cuts, especially to state and local health departments, are slowing and muddling the response to what's already a record year of outbreaks for diarrhea-causing cyclospora.
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It can take weeks to confirm a single case of intestinal illness caused by the cyclospora parasite, but the CDC's tally for this year now stands at over 4,100.
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The FDA retracted its only positive test for cyclospora, the parasite at the center of a multistate outbreak, on Taylor Farms lettuce. But the agency believes lettuce from the brand is still linked.
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The FDA could approve the first blood test that can detect multiple cancers, around the end of the year, setting the stage for it to become widely available. -
A new drug for pancreatic cancer gives some hope for one of the most dire types of cancer.
