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Nick El Hajj
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Nick El Hajj is a rapid response general assignment reporter at the Des Moines Register. An award-winning journalist, his reporting has been featured in hundreds of publications globally. He covers a range of topics, including breaking news, crime, courts, elections, legislation, and small-town issues, politics and corruption in the Des Moines metro and beyond.
Ophelia is among the roughly 150 Iowa children and teenagers diagnosed with cancer in an average year, upending families while doctors still struggle to explain the causes.
Across rural Iowa, a “sleeping giant” is stirring as families confront the grief and unanswered questions of a deepening cancer crisis.