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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Most people think of women as breast cancer patients, but about one in every 1,000 cases diagnosed is found in a man. -
The state health department in June expanded its list of required screenings for newborns to include spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). It's a rare neuromuscular disorder affecting cells in the spinal cord that signal the muscles how to work.
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Between Oct. 1 of last year and Jan. 30, there were 98% fewer flu hospitalizations than during the same time the previous season.
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Findings by scientists at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a new way in which exercise strengthens bones and immune function.
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Heart disease now tops breast cancer as the leading cause of death for women.
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Vital Signs host Sam Baker spoke with Dr. Joseph Chang, the chief medical officer with Parkland Hospital System, about how to stay safe during the holiday season. Chang said the type of gathering, cleaning precautions and proper mask-wearing are all things to keep in mind.
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The center's received regional reports of at least 46 cases of ingestion or overexposure to bleach since Aug. 1. A few involved attempts to avoid or stop COVID-19.
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Sore throat is a common ailment, but it’s also now included among symptoms for COVID 19.
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A recent study found blood pressure in women begins to increase at younger ages, and at a faster rate, than in men.
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Ear infections are very common in young children. Most go away on their own, but some infections require antibiotics and other cases require further...
