Farah Yousry
Farah Yousry was a managing health editor at WFYI and Side Effects Public Media. In her prior role as health equity reporter, she focused on health care disparities in minority communities across the Midwest.
Before moving to the U.S., Farah worked as a journalist for local news organizations in Egypt during the Arab Spring and the contentious political period following the Egyptian revolution. She has worked with the BBC World Service for more than five years, producing radio, television and digital features for audiences across Europe and the Middle East. Farah speaks Arabic, English and Mandarin Chinese.
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Indiana politicians reacted to the U.S. strikes on Iran — most praised President Trump’s decision, few criticized it. -
An IU Health employee alleges in a new lawsuit that he faced a hostile work environment and retaliation for speaking out about harassment tied to his sexual orientation. -
Children 18 and under can get free meals at locations across the city through the Indy Parks Meals Program, May 27 through July 25. -
A Hoosier artist has been selected to create a mural of WNBA and Indiana Fever star Tamika Catchings. -
The president and CEO of Carmel Christkindlmarkt, Maria Adele Rosenfeld, resigned from her role. On the same day, former Christkindlmarkt Board Chair Susan McDermott filed a defamation lawsuit against the city of Carmel and its mayor. -
Sickle cell experts say the future of a critical data collection program is in flux after staff at the CDC's Division of Blood Disorders were placed on administrative leave without a clear future plan. -
A federal judge on Monday night temporarily stopped plans by the National Institutes of Health to cut funding to universities, hospitals and other research centers across the U.S. -
The term “excited delirium” has been used as a diagnosis to describe people who die suddenly in police custody. But physicians and medical boards have long dismissed excited delirium as unscientific, and some argue it’s used by police to justify excessive force. -
The case comes as the law — and culture — around Indiana’s physician noncompete clauses has shifted. But some still worry that existing noncompete clauses could push physicians out of the state. -
IV fluids are used everywhere in the health care system –– from the ER to the operating rooms to dialysis centers. Now, hospitals across the U.S. are bracing for a shortage of these critical drugs after Hurricane Helene damaged the country’s largest IV fluid manufacturing plant in North Carolina.
