Sam Baker
Sam Baker is KERA's senior editor and local host for Morning Edition. The native of Beaumont, Texas, also edits and produces radio commentaries and Vital Signs, a series that's part of the station's Breakthroughs initiative. He also was the longtime host of KERA 13’s Emmy Award-winning public affairs program On the Record. He also won an Emmy in 2008 for KERA’s Sharing the Power: A Voter’s Voice Special, and has earned honors from the Associated Press and the Public Radio News Directors Inc.
Sam worked in commercial television at NBC and CBS affiliates for six years before moving to public broadcasting. He was news director and Morning Edition host at KWGS-FM in Tulsa, Okla., for three years and moved to KERA in 1991. He has served on the board of Public Radio News Directors Inc. and is a member of the Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Communicators.
As a volunteer, Sam produces a weekly series, Jazz in Words and Music, for Reading and Radio Resources, an agency serving the visually impaired. He also serves on the board of Southwest Transplant Alliance, a private non-profit organization that provides organs and tissues for transplantation.
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You normally sit down to check your blood pressure, but UT Southwestern researchers have found standing up may more accurately show if you have hypertension. -
All candies contain sugar. But some types of candy are less harmful to your teeth's enamel than others.
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The study, supported by the National Institute on Aging and the National Institutes of Health, included more than 180,000 adults with an average age of 70.
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UT Health Houston researchers designed RAPIDO, to help improve outcomes for Latinos with stroke. It's a major killer among Latino men and women.
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A clinical trial in Australia of muvalaplin found it can lower lipoprotein-A or Lp(a) by more than 50%. A North Texas cardiologist says it could be a game-changer.
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Data from U.S. studies over 40 years found some heart attack victims experienced cognitive decline at a more accelerated rate as they aged than patients without underlying heart disease.
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A Texas breast surgeon agrees with screening earlier, but she favors annual mammograms instead of exams every two years.
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Erythritol is used as a sugar substitute in a variety of foods. Dr. Brandie Williams, a cardiologist with Texas Health Stephenville, said consuming large amounts may lead to serious problems.
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The CDC says one in four older adults falls each year. KERA’s Sam Baker talks about why with Dr. Deborah Freeland, an assistant professor of geriatric medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
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Dr. Quanita Crable, an OB-GYN with Texas Health Dallas, explains to KERA's Sam Baker why she believes laparoscopic myomectomy is the best option to remove the fibroids.
