Bonnie Petrie
Bonnie Petrie is a proud new member of the news team at WUWM. She is a reporter who - over her twenty year career - has been honored by both the Texas an New York Associated Press Broadcasters, as well as the Radio, Television and Digital News Association, for her reporting, anchoring, special series production and use of sound.
Bonnie is a native of northern New York, growing up along the Canadian border. She spent nearly fifteen years living and working in Texas. She is also a podcaster, known, in particular, for her series of podcasts for pregnant women and new mothers called Pea in the Podcast.
A mother of one daughter, Bonnie lives in Shorewood.
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Only 85% of patients enrolled in programs to treat their tuberculosis finished those programs within a year. The national average is 90%. The CDC goal is 99%. -
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men and the five year survival rate is 97%. -
'It'll be rough through January, most of February, likely. And then hopefully we'll start to see some relief,' according to Dr. Jason Bowling, an infectious diseases doctor at UT Health San Antonio and University Hospital. -
New study backs up anecdotal evidence that video conference meetings can take a toll on participantsThe study, performed at an Austrian University, sought to determine whether videoconferencing led to fatigue on a brain level. -
The CDC is urging manufacturers of a type of flour used to make foods like tortillas and tamales to add folic acid to help lower the risk of some birth defects in the Hispanic population.
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Group A strep has killed at least 24 children in England in the last four months. This has experts debating whether something has caused children to be more vulnerable to infectious diseases this fall, and if so, what?
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An evaluation of years of research into whether low serotonin in the brain causes depression has concluded that it doesn’t. What does that mean for the millions of Americans who take antidepressants that increase serotonin? -
Texas’s primary care doctor shortage has taken a sharp turn for the worse during the pandemic, and one rural family doctor is pleading with state lawmakers to do something about it. -
Dr. Larry Schlesinger urges Texans to keep wearing masks. -
Texans gathering to get supplies and stay warm during last week's winter weather emergency could contribute to another COVID-19 surge.
