Ashley Griffin
Ashley Griffin covers how new research shapes everyday health choices, translating complex studies into practical takeaways for general audiences. She focuses on the intersection of lifestyle, mental health, and preventive care, showing readers what emerging evidence means for how they live, age, and seek support.
Evidence‑driven lifestyle and longevity
Griffin’s health coverage centers on studies that connect routine habits with long‑term outcomes such as aging and disease risk. She reports on work examining how engagement in arts and cultural activities may be linked to slower biological aging, breaking down concepts like “epigenetic aging” and explaining how frequency and variety of participation relate to markers on advanced aging clocks. She applies the same lens to nutrition and brain health, highlighting research that associates regular egg consumption with a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, and detailing differences in risk across intake levels while emphasizing that the findings show association rather than proof of prevention. Her reporting consistently pairs summary of peer‑reviewed results with clear caveats about study limitations, population characteristics, and the distinction between correlation and causation.
Women’s health and weight‑related research
Griffin gives sustained attention to how scientific studies address women’s health, body weight, and related behaviors. She covers research indicating that women with a history of yo‑yo dieting gained more weight during pregnancy, explaining how prior patterns of weight cycling relate to gestational weight gain and why these findings matter for long‑term health. She also reports on work in JAMA Network Open that finds women taking active hormonal birth control pills reported higher levels of emotional eating than when they were on inactive or placebo pills, outlining how emotional eating scores changed with pill type and noting that the authors do not conclude birth control causes eating disorders. Across this strand of coverage she focuses on specific study measures, reported risk differences, and authors’ stated limitations, presenting women’s health findings in a way that is grounded in data but careful not to overstate implications.
Mental health, technology, and youth behavior
Another recurring theme in Griffin’s work is how young people navigate mental health using new tools and platforms. She reports on research in JAMA Pediatrics showing that about 19% of Americans ages 12 to 21 — roughly 8.2 million people — used AI chatbots for mental health advice in 2025. Her story breaks down usage patterns, including how often teens and young adults turn to these tools, how helpful they say the responses are, and the striking share who have not told anyone they are using AI for mental health support. In this reporting she combines survey statistics with behavioral details, mapping how technology is reshaping help‑seeking while foregrounding numbers that matter for clinicians, families, and policymakers.
Hard news and public safety reporting
Alongside her health beat, Griffin contributes to hard news coverage involving public safety and major incidents. She has reported on a deadly school field trip bus crash, detailing the identification of the bus driver, the type of vehicle involved, and the number of student fatalities and hospitalizations as authorities released new information. She has also covered a case in which a man was accused of setting multiple fires during a large music festival, outlining the nine arson charges and documenting how the investigation unfolded. These pieces reflect a straight‑news style focused on official findings, timelines, and law enforcement actions, complementing her more analytical health reporting with clear, factual coverage of unfolding events.
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Aislinn Antrim
Aislinn Antrim is an associate editorial director at Pharmacy Times and a journalist who connects clinical advances, regulation, and the changing role of pharmacists. She writes pharmacy-centered health coverage on chronic disease therapeutics, specialty and oncology care, workforce pressures, and advocacy. Her reporting explains FDA actions, policy shifts, drug pipelines, and the real-world effects of new evidence on patient care and pharmacy practice. She often uses interviews and expert conversations to show how pharmacists improve adherence, manage side effects, navigate access and benefits, and coordinate care with prescribers. She also covers burnout, staffing strain, and the future of pharmacy practice, with an eye on how policy and economics shape work at the dispenser.
Alex Cabrero
Alex Cabrero is an Emmy award-winning KSL TV reporter who covers where health, safety and community life meet, always focused on how decisions and events affect everyday people. He has been with KSL since 2004, bringing long experience in breaking news, public service coverage and human-centered features. His beat includes public health, emergency response, technology, local infrastructure, environment and science, framed through community well-being and resilience. He reports on issues like mental health initiatives, law enforcement staffing, environmental hazards, rescues, wildfire detection tools, land-use fights and scientific discoveries, making technical and policy details clear for a general audience. He also produces many positive, everyday-life features on families, veterans, farmers, sports and local traditions. His style is direct and conversational, often built around a central person or family whose experience carries the story across TV, digital and social platforms.
Allison Palmer
Allison Palmer stands out for turning complex microbiome and brain-health research into clear, service stories tied to everyday habits. She covers health, wellness and lifestyle topics for The Sacramento Bee, focusing on emerging trends that help readers build positive, sustainable routines. Her reporting on the gut microbiome and healthy aging uses vivid case studies, including a rare supercentenarian, to connect diet, bacterial communities and longevity to daily eating choices. Another strand of her work examines oral bacteria and brain health, linking gum infections to changes in brain tissue and to simple oral-care practices. Since 2024, her wellness coverage has appeared across the McClatchy network, alongside pieces on technology, travel, lifestyle and commerce. She favors reported explainers with direct takeaways, keeps scientific detail intact, and strips away jargon to help readers build realistic long-term habits.
Alyssa Kelly
Alyssa Kelly reports on health and emotional local stories that show how everyday experiences shape people’s sense of safety and wellbeing. They work in the digital newsroom at TV6 & FOX UP, contributing text and video pieces on community life and public interest topics. Their beat centers on health and safety in ordinary settings, especially outdoors, and on animal and family stories tied to wellbeing and memory. They cover issues like tick exposure during routine park visits and long-term pet disappearances and reunions, using specific details, clear timelines, and direct quotes to make the stakes feel immediate and personal. Kelly’s headlines often foreground quoted phrases from families and pet owners, giving their reporting a conversational, human-centered tone. They also collaborate with other reporters on health and safety stories that connect individual cases to wider public concerns.