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Funding cuts may undermine efforts to connect rural patients and specialists remotely

One rural Iowa hospital is trying to remotely connect its patients with more specialists from around the state. But cuts to federal funds might disrupt efforts like that.

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Yuki Noguchi
Yuki Noguchi is a correspondent on the Science Desk based out of NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. She started covering consumer health in the midst of the pandemic, reporting on mental health, vaccination, telehealth, and racial inequities in healthcare.