Health, Science & Environment

The Ohio House finished the bulk of its work this month with the Republican Speaker saying the chamber will not take any action on HB6 – the sweeping energy law that bails out nuclear power plants and was linked to the biggest alleged scandal in Ohio politics.

This is part two of a two-part series on COVID-19 and diabetes. Read part one here.

William Rentel, a nurse practitioner in Ohio, has Type 1 diabetes but kept his blood sugar well-managed. That changed when he and his wife contracted COVID-19 this spring.

This is part one of a two-part series on COVID-19 and diabetes. Read part two on Wednesday.

Agatha Walston leads a busy life. She’s a nurse in southern Indiana and a single mother of two young kids.

Ohio lawmakers have sent to Gov. Mike DeWine a bill that prohibits doctors from using telemedicine to prescribe abortion medication. SB 260 is the second bill limiting abortion that’s passed the legislature during the lame-duck session.

Ohio is beginning a new pilot project to help expand broadband internet to the estimated 1 million Ohioans who lack it.

The first COVID-19 vaccine is here. The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center administered the first doses of Pfizer’s vaccine to Ohioans on Monday, starting with frontline healthcare workers at the highest risk of contracting the virus.

Hundreds of thousands of doses are on their way to Ohio, but it is going to take months to get everyone vaccinated and the logistical challenges are enormous.