Sam Baker
Senior Editor and Morning Edition HostSam 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 for seven years produced a weekly series, Jazz in Words and Music, for Reading and Radio Resources, an agency serving the visually impaired. He is also a former member on the board of Southwest Transplant Alliance, a private nonprofit organization that provides organs and tissues for transplantation.
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Monoclonal antibodies have been an effective tool against early-stage COVID-19. Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center’s now in phase three of a national trial testing polyclonal antibodies. -
A recent study highlighted some patients who had an adverse reaction to their injection after having already received a COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Jennifer Holman of U.S. Dermatology Partners in Tyler explained to KERA's Sam Baker why there’s little, if any, need for worry.
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The FDA recently approved a prescription eye drop that may make reading glasses unnecessary. One North Texas ophthalmologist has concerns.
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As COVID-19 case numbers began to increase in Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, and Denton counties in December, health officials across the region announced their first cases detected of the new variant.UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas verified one such case.
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The COVID masking, social distancing and hand-washing we did last year helped to keep the 2020 flu season quiet. While the CDC says flu activity this year has been low so far, cases still total more than seen last year.
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That morning shot of stimulation you get from coffee or tea may be great for your brain in more ways than one.
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Also called PDT, the FDA-approved therapy uses drugs activated by light to target and destroy tumor cells.
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Health care providers are supposed to help us get well or keep us well. But a doctor who’s studied the issue says bias and racism in decisions about treatment can affect the outcome.
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A 2018 study determined stroke was the third-leading cause of death in Texas.Carotid artery disease is a major cause of strokes. It narrows or blocks the arteries, on each side of your neck under the jawline, that provide the main blood supply to the brain.
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Efforts continue across North Texas to register kids for Pfizer’s pediatric vaccine against COVID-19.An expert in infectious disease prevention, epidemiology, and health care policy explains the importance of vaccinating children.
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Low dose aspirin has long been recommended to decrease the chances of heart attacks and strokes. But new guidelines say some people should not partake in this regimen.
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If you drink with any degree of regularity — or even at all — you might want to reconsider. Numerous studies point to alcohol increasing the risk of breast cancer.
