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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Amid a record-setting outbreak of the diarrhea-causing parasite, food safety advocates say risks to food production are increasing.
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From state and local food-safety response to the federal health agencies that fund that work, a record-breaking year for cyclosporiasis cases runs up against the Trump administration's cuts last year. -
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 says lettuce distributed by Taylor Fresh Foods and Taylor Farms de Mexico is still linked to the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis. But the source may be difficult to definitively trace. -
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. -
Recent studies suggest the weight loss and diabetes drugs may prevent cancer and slow its progression. While weight loss is known to curb cancer risks, GLP-1s may act on other brain and metabolic pathways to prevent cancer.
