Tony Leys
Tony Leys, Rural Editor/Correspondent for Kaiser Health News, is based in Des Moines, where he worked 33 years as a reporter and editor for The Des Moines Register. Tony was the Register’s lead health care reporter for more than 20 years and served four terms as a board member for the Association of Health Care Journalists. He is an alum of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT.
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Federal and state authorities are encouraging more rural health care professionals to become certified to prescribe medications containing buprenorphine for patients battling opioid addiction.