Eilís O'Neill
Reporter
About
Eilís (eye-LEASH) O'Neill fell in love with radio when she was a 14-year-old high school intern at KUOW, in the program that later became RadioActive. Since then, she's worked as a radio reporter in South America and New York City and was thrilled to return to her hometown radio station in 2017. Her work has appeared on The World, Marketplace, and NPR.
Eilís has a degree in English and Spanish from Oberlin College and a master’s degree in science, environment and health journalism from Columbia University.
Stories
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Health
A wheelchair ramp, respite care: What WA's long-term care tax could realistically get you
When older people in the U.S. need long-term care in a nursing home or from a home health aide, most have to pay out of pocket or turn to family. In July, Washington became the first state to try to address the problem with a public long-term care benefit funded through a payroll tax.
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A vending machine in Seattle that dispenses the morning-after pill
There’s a new kind of vending machine on the University of Washington campus. It sells pregnancy tests, tampons, tylenol – and the morning-after pill for $12.60, packaged in purple and white boxes.
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UW researcher says there's a simple way to help people addicted to fentanyl
Addiction researchers say the FDA should revisit their prescribing guidelines for buprenorphine, one of the main medications that can help people addicted to fentanyl or other opioids by reducing withdrawal symptoms and cravings.
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Outdoor program aims to help younger Alzheimer’s patients
One in ten people with Alzheimer’s get their diagnosis before age sixty-five.
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Many things got Amanda Schroeder into addiction. Her kids got her out
Last February, Amanda Schroeder landed in jail for breaking into a car to keep warm.
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Numbing the pain: Opioid crisis on the Olympic Peninsula
Vicki Lowe, a Sequim City Councilmember and citizen of the Jamestown Tribe, was taking notes on intergenerational trauma at a conference when it hit her.
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UW Medicine is going to start billing for some electronic messages from patients
Ones that require medical expertise, and more than five minutes of their time.
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Some Seattle doctors are ditching the scale. They say focusing on weight drives misdiagnoses
Doctors have long emphasized their patients' weight and blamed the health problems of anyone with a larger body on the number on the scale. Now, some Seattle-area providers are trying a new approach: throwing out the scale, and never recommending intentional weight loss.
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WA’s new budget includes money for a unique vending machine
Ones that sell emergency contraception and pregnancy tests at public colleges and universities.
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Investigation continues into Virginia Mason bacterial outbreak, link to patient deaths unclear
A bacterial outbreak at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle has sickened 31 patients since October. Seven of them have since died, but it’s unknown what caused those deaths — the infection or the diagnoses that brought them to the hospital in the first place.