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mattie-quinn

Mattie Quinn

Staff Writer

Mattie covers all things health for Governing. A native of Arkansas, she graduated with her M.S. from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism with a focus on public health reporting. Her work has been published in National Geographic, New York Magazine and The Atlantic.

States are increasingly pairing mental health and substance abuse patients with peer specialists -- people who have experienced some of the same problems themselves.
In an effort to survive, several of the remaining health co-ops are fighting the landmark law. Unlike most legal challenges to it, they may actually have a case.
Freestanding ERs have been around for years. But only recently have they become profit-focused, deceptive places of care.
New studies show that the main weapon against opioid overdoses is showing promise, but states could be doing more to save lives.
The worrisome state of rural health care has led many to wonder.
Baltimore is at the forefront of a movement to expand public health's arena to include social ills such as gun violence and drug addiction.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down abortion restrictions in Texas on Monday, making it likely that other states will see challenges to their own reproductive laws.
In the wake of another mass shooting and amid congressional inaction on gun control, the state has announced plans to open the nation's first public research center dedicated to firearm violence.
If California soon becomes the first state to let undocumented immigrants use the health insurance marketplace, will others follow?
The business of collecting blood is a complex one.