Stephanie Innes
@stephanieinnes.bsky.social
Health care reporter for The Arizona Republic/USA Today Network. Hiker, reader, cyclist. Born and raised in Canada, live in downtown Phoenix, AZ. DMs open. stephanie.innes@gannett.com
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Do you know a passionate fundraiser looking for meaningful work? The Grand Canyon Trust is hiring a development director. Will you please help us spread the word? www.grandcanyontrust.org/development-...
NOW HIRING | Development Director
At the Grand Canyon Trust, our work is more than just a job. Join our team as the next development director.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Do you know a passionate fundraiser looking for meaningful work? The Grand Canyon Trust is hiring a development director. Will you please help us spread the word? www.grandcanyontrust.org/development-...
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US stillbirth rate is higher than reported reut.rs/48POwtc
US stillbirth rate is higher than reported
Stillbirths in the U.S. are more common than previously reported, affecting roughly 1 in 150 pregnancies, and rates are even higher in lower-income areas, according to results from a large study published on Monday.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Catherine Corless is a hero. Without her unrelenting commitment to uncovering the truth, the fate of these children would be forgotten. It all started with questions about her own family. Family history and social justice go hand in hand. #genealogy www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
The scandal of 796 dead Irish babies — and one woman’s fight
Thanks to Catherine Corless, almost 800 babies born to unmarried mothers at St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway, will have a proper burial
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October 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Catherine Corless is a hero. Without her unrelenting commitment to uncovering the truth, the fate of these children would be forgotten. It all started with questions about her own family. Family history and social justice go hand in hand. #genealogy www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
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Sometimes it's a medical crisis, other times a cascade of problems. Often it's bad luck. Meet 12 #unhoused individuals in metro #Phoenix
Sometimes it's a medical crisis, other times a cascade of problems. Often it's bad luck. Meet 12 #unhoused individuals in metro #Phoenix
You see them on the streets. Meet some of the Phoenix area's unhoused
A team of Arizona Republic reporters fanned out across metro Phoenix to talk to the unhoused. Here are their stories.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Sometimes it's a medical crisis, other times a cascade of problems. Often it's bad luck. Meet 12 #unhoused individuals in metro #Phoenix
Sometimes it's a medical crisis, other times a cascade of problems. Often it's bad luck. Meet 12 #unhoused individuals in metro #Phoenix
Husband in billion-dollar #Medicare fraud duo sobs as he gets 14 years in prison. Judge tells him he was "in it for greed." #Arizona www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Husband in billion-dollar Medicare fraud duo gets 14 years in prison
Valley resident Jeffrey Amos King sobbed after a judge sentenced him to 14 years in prison for a crime that his wife said she largely orchestrated.
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October 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Husband in billion-dollar #Medicare fraud duo sobs as he gets 14 years in prison. Judge tells him he was "in it for greed." #Arizona www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
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For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.
Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.
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Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.
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October 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.
Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...
Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...
Arizona resident Alexandra Gehrke, 39, gave needless wound treatments to dying patients and bilked Medicare and other insurers as part of a $1.2 billion scheme due to what a judge said was "unmitigated greed." She's going to prison.
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Arizona woman gets stiff prison sentence in billion-dollar Medicare fraud
Prosecutors say Arizonan Alexandra Gehrke, 39, was part of one of the highest-dollar financial health-care fraud schemes in American history.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Arizona resident Alexandra Gehrke, 39, gave needless wound treatments to dying patients and bilked Medicare and other insurers as part of a $1.2 billion scheme due to what a judge said was "unmitigated greed." She's going to prison.
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The false idea that Democrats, in pushing to reverse Medicaid and ACA cuts, are advocating for an expansion of health care for undocumented immigrants is maybe the biggest health policy distortion since the supposed "death panels" in Obamacare.
October 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The false idea that Democrats, in pushing to reverse Medicaid and ACA cuts, are advocating for an expansion of health care for undocumented immigrants is maybe the biggest health policy distortion since the supposed "death panels" in Obamacare.
If you live in #Arizona and have health coverage through the Affordable Care Act (also known as #ACA and #Obamacare plans), I'd like to hear from you. Dms open, email is stephanie.innes@gannett.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If you live in #Arizona and have health coverage through the Affordable Care Act (also known as #ACA and #Obamacare plans), I'd like to hear from you. Dms open, email is stephanie.innes@gannett.com
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3 burning questions about the MMR vaccine, answered. Experts see no advantage to breaking the shot into three doses, and developing those individual vaccines would take time.
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3 burning questions about the MMR vaccine, answered
President Trump has said the MMR vaccine should be broken up. But experts see no medical benefit in separating one shot into three.
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September 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
3 burning questions about the MMR vaccine, answered. Experts see no advantage to breaking the shot into three doses, and developing those individual vaccines would take time.
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🎓 Americans with a college degree are more likely to get news at least sometimes from news websites or apps, podcasts, or email newsletters.
🏫 Those without a college degree are more likely to say they get news from social media.
🏫 Those without a college degree are more likely to say they get news from social media.
News Platform Fact Sheet
How Americans get news has greatly changed in the 21st century. Most now use digital devices for news at least sometimes. Read about the platforms they turn to.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🎓 Americans with a college degree are more likely to get news at least sometimes from news websites or apps, podcasts, or email newsletters.
🏫 Those without a college degree are more likely to say they get news from social media.
🏫 Those without a college degree are more likely to say they get news from social media.
A two-state #measles outbreak between #Utah and #Arizona has grown to 78 cases
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Utah measles cases connected to Arizona outbreak, health officials say
Mohave County in Arizona and Washington County in Utah had reported a total of 78 measles cases between them, as of Sept. 25, 2025.
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September 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A two-state #measles outbreak between #Utah and #Arizona has grown to 78 cases
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September 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Kennedy is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 2: VAERS, the FDA, and ACIP - anti-vaccine activists have long misused VAERS. Now Kennedy is bringing this to ACIP to mislead people about vaccines. sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken... @sciencebasedmedicine.org @gorskon.bsky.social
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 2: VAERS, the FDA, and ACIP
The Food and Drug Administration appears to be about to weaponize a classic antivax trope against COVID-19 vaccines, the abuse of reports to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System to falsely por
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September 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Kennedy is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 2: VAERS, the FDA, and ACIP - anti-vaccine activists have long misused VAERS. Now Kennedy is bringing this to ACIP to mislead people about vaccines. sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken... @sciencebasedmedicine.org @gorskon.bsky.social
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The question was: "was wondering if Charlie Kirk getting shot affects your position on campus carry? If gun control had been in play could the tragedy have been avoided?”
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Reporter Suspended After Question About Charlie Kirk Enrages MAGA Congressman
"I am repulsed that you would even think to ask," the Florida Republican told the journalist.
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September 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The question was: "was wondering if Charlie Kirk getting shot affects your position on campus carry? If gun control had been in play could the tragedy have been avoided?”
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#Arizona's #measles outbreak has grown to 28 cases, including one hospitalization. The outbreak is centered in the rural town of Colorado City, near the #Utah border
September 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
#Arizona's #measles outbreak has grown to 28 cases, including one hospitalization. The outbreak is centered in the rural town of Colorado City, near the #Utah border
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New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
August 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
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The statue is modeled after a real donkey who helped some of the Grand Canyon North Rim's first settlers establish camp.
Brighty of the Grand Canyon is on the move. Here's where the beloved statue is going
The statue is modeled after a real donkey who helped some of the Grand Canyon North Rim's first settlers establish camp.
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August 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The statue is modeled after a real donkey who helped some of the Grand Canyon North Rim's first settlers establish camp.
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Women's rights face 'full-on assault' due to UN and aid funding cuts reut.rs/46ymdy1
Women's rights face 'full-on assault' due to UN and aid funding cuts
Four major international reports on women's rights, including recommendations on how to prevent domestic violence and discrimination, will not be published this year, a U.N. document showed, part of what rights groups describe as a broader backlash against gender equality.
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July 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Women's rights face 'full-on assault' due to UN and aid funding cuts reut.rs/46ymdy1
Measles Cases Hit Record High, 25 Years After U.S. Eliminated the Disease www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...
Measles Cases Hit Record High, 25 Years After U.S. Eliminated the Disease
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July 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Measles Cases Hit Record High, 25 Years After U.S. Eliminated the Disease www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...
Congressional Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill could spike the number of Arizonans without health insurance, putting added pressure on providers. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Where do most Arizonans get health insurance and how many stand to lose it? What to know
Congressional Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill could spike the number of Arizonans without health insurance, putting added pressure on providers.
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July 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Congressional Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill could spike the number of Arizonans without health insurance, putting added pressure on providers. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Was walking through a hallway at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix and encountered this lovely therapist who has her own business cards!
July 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Was walking through a hallway at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix and encountered this lovely therapist who has her own business cards!