Carla K. Johnson, Author at Valley News

In this undated photo provided by CareSouth Medical and Dental, Nyasha Fleming, Medical Staff Lead fills out paperwork for Judge Janice Clark's vaccine in Baton Rouge, La. A racial gap has opened up in the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination drive, with Black Americans in many places lagging behind whites in receiving shots, an Associated Press analysis shows. (CareSouth Medical and Dental via AP)

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Analysis: Racial disparity seen in US vaccination efforts

by Carla K. Johnson Associated Press, Angeliki Kastanis Associated Press, and Kat Stafford Associated PressJanuary 30, 2021

A racial gap has opened up in the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination drive, with Black Americans in many places lagging behind white people in receiving shots, an Associated Press analysis shows.An early look at the 17 states and two cities that have…

FILE - This Feb. 16, 2017 file photo shows newborn babies in the nursery of a postpartum recovery center in upstate New York. According to a government report released Wednesday, May 15, 2019, U.S. birth rates reached record lows for women in their teens and 20s, leading to the fewest babies in 32 years. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

U.S. births lowest in 3 decades despite improving economy

by Carla K. Johnson AP Medical WriterMay 15, 2019

In this April 29, 2019, photo, Dr. Laura Baecher-Lind, director of women's care at Tufts Medical Center, poses for a photo in an exam room at the medical center in Boston. Lawmakers in several states say they were alarmed to learn it’s still possible for medical students to do pelvic exams on anesthetized women without explicit consent, especially given evolving cultural attitudes in the #MeToo era. Doctors discuss consent forms with gynecology patients, inform them that students may participate in pelvic exams and ask for consent, said Baecher-Lind. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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States seek explicit patient consent for pelvic exams

by Jennifer McDermott Associated Press, and Carla K. Johnson Associated PressMay 12, 2019

Timothy Ray Brown poses for a photograph, Monday, March 4, 2019, in Seattle. Brown, also known as the "Berlin patient," was the first person to be cured of HIV infection, more than a decade ago. Now researchers are reporting a second patient has lived 18 months after stopping HIV treatment without sign of the virus following a stem-cell transplant. But such transplants are dangerous, cannot be used widely and have failed in other patients. (AP Photo/Manuel Valdes)

Man appears free of virus

by Carla K. Johnson AP Medical WriterMarch 4, 2019

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Anesthesia, if limited, can be safe for baby’s brain

by Carla K. Johnson AP Medical WriterFebruary 17, 2019

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 3, 2018 file photo, a Narcan nasal device which delivers naloxone lies on a counter as a health educator gives instructions on how to administer it in the Brooklyn borough of New York. On Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018, the U.S. government told doctors to consider prescribing the overdose antidote naloxone to many more patients who take opioid painkillers. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Government Urges Doctors to Write More Prescriptions for Overdose Antidote

by Carla K. Johnson AP Medical WriterDecember 19, 2018

Senior Hazel Ostrowski attends her first period AP statistics class at Franklin High School Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, in Seattle. High school students are getting more sleep in Seattle, according to a study on later school start times. Ostrowski was among a group at Franklin and another Seattle high school who wore activity monitors to discover whether a later start to the school day would help them get more sleep. It did, adding 34 minutes of slumber a night, and they reported less daytime sleepiness and grades improved. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Seattle Study Finds Later School Start Time Helps Teenagers Get More Sleep

by Carla K. Johnson AP Medical WriterDecember 12, 2018

In this Monday, Oct. 1, 2018 photo Michael Robinson, of North Reading, Mass., in recovery from heroin addiction, stands for a photo near the Charles River, in Cambridge, Mass. Robinson recently became a union carpenter and has been working on building projects across the Boston area since. In Massachusetts, with Medicaid expansion already paying for opioid addiction treatment, emergency money from Congress goes largely toward recovery services. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Analysis: ‘Obamacare’ Shapes States’ Spending of Opioid Grant Money

by Carla K. Johnson Associated Press, and Nicky Forster Associated PressOctober 23, 2018

FILE - This April 3, 2018 file photo shows a closeup of a beam scale in New York. New research, published Tuesday, Oct. 16 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests obesity surgery may dramatically lower the danger of heart attacks and strokes in people with diabetes. The study reinforces evidence that the benefits of stomach-shrinking surgery extend beyond weight loss. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

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Obesity Surgery May Lower Heart Attack Danger in Diabetics

by Carla K. Johnson AP Medical WriterOctober 17, 2018

This image provided by Oxford VR in July 2018 shows a virtual reality viewpoint from a simulation designed to help people with a fear of heights. Virtual reality therapy can help patients by exposing them gradually to their greatest terrors. The technology is just now reaching the mainstream after 20 years of research. (Oxford VR via AP)

VR Ushers In New Era For Phobia Therapy

by Carla K. Johnson AP Medical WriterSeptember 18, 2018