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Science Writer & Medical Researcher
Writing
Freelance Journalism
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NPR. New Zealand's Indigenous people are furious over plans to snuff out anti-smoking laws. December 6, 2023.
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NPR. It's one of the world's toughest anti-smoking laws. The Māori see a major flaw. October 1, 2023.
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Smithsonian Magazine. Can Digital Psychiatry Really Fill the Mental Health Care Gap? May 12, 2023.
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Smithsonian Magazine. When Should I Get Another Covid Booster? April 27, 2023.
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The Guardian. Should we ban the purchase of cigarettes for life? A US town is trying. March 31, 2023.
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Smithsonian Magazine. Six Lessons We’ve Learned From Covid That Will Help Us Fight the Next Pandemic. December 30, 2022.
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Harvard Public Health. Cholera outbreaks surge worldwide, renewing debates on vaccines. December 7, 2022.
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NPR. African scientists say Western aid to fight pandemic is backfiring. Here's their plan. November 4, 2022.
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The Atlantic. Doctors Still Struggle to Diagnose a Condition That Kills More Americans Than Stroke. October 16, 2022 - originally published in Undark and republished in Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Science, Ars Technica, Medscape, etc.
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Smithsonian Magazine. Four Big Questions About the New Covid-19 Boosters, Answered. September 15, 2022.
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Scientific American. Most People at Risk for Lung Cancer Never Get Screened: Here’s How to Fix That. September 6, 2022.
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WIRED. This Follicle-Hacking Drug Could One Day Treat Baldness. September 6, 2022.
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Smithsonian Magazine. Six Big Questions About the Monkeypox Virus, Answered. August 30, 2022.
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Slate. How to Raise a Pig for Its Organs. August 30, 2022.
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The Guardian. Pig to human heart transplants are the future. Are we ready for it? August 4, 2022.
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TIME Magazine. How to Return to Normal After Having Your Bladder Surgically Removed. July 28, 2022.
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The Washington Post. Racial bias is built into the design of pulse oximeters. July 27, 2022.
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The Guardian. Voting is significant determinant of health, US medical association declares. July 14, 2022.
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Smithsonian Magazine. Why Exactly Did the First Human Patient to Receive a Pig Heart Die? July 14, 2022.
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Boston Globe. A blood-oxygen detector without racial bias. July 5, 2022.
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Smithsonian Magazine. What You Need to Know About the History of Monkeypox. June 24, 2022.
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The Washington Post. After centuries, we still can’t perform animal-to-human transplants. June 1, 2022.
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Sentient Media. Inside the Pig Heart Transplant and Ethical Dilemma That Followed. April 26, 2022.
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Tarbell. The Enigma of Stigma. February 28, 2022.
STAT Journalism, Washington DC Reporter
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STAT+. Medicare Advantage plans for dual-eligible enrollees set to get Senate scrutiny. September 26, 2023. (PDF here)
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STAT+. What do new weight loss drugs mean for the future of bariatric surgery? August 28, 2023. (PDF here)
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STAT+. Mid-year drug price hikes are back despite Inflation Reduction Act. August 24, 2023. (PDF here)
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STAT+. Obesity specialists are scarce. Here’s how that’s starting to change. August 23, 2023. (PDF here)
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STAT. Why so few get screened for lung cancer, the deadliest cancer in the U.S. August 18, 2023.
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STAT. Meet the scientists trying to stop the next global pandemic from starting in Africa. August 9, 2023.
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STAT+. Wegovy cardiovascular study has doctors seeing new possibilities in weight loss drug. August 8, 2023. (PDF here)
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STAT. Pandemic slowed cancer diagnoses, but late-stage cancers came back with a vengeance. August 4, 2023.
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STAT+. Mental illness, drug addiction go hand in glove, Biden’s drug czar tells lawmakers. July 27, 2023. (PDF here)
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STAT. A psychologist’s lifetime of challenging assumptions while living with paralysis. July 26, 2023.
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STAT+. FDA official pushes for a dedicated emerging pathogens team to prepare for the next pandemic. July 21, 2023. (PDF here)
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STAT+. Superbugs, antibiotic resistance get renewed scrutiny in Congress. July 11, 2023. (PDF here)
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STAT. Why nearly half of Americans with Parkinson’s don’t see a neurologist. July 10, 2023.
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STAT+. UPenn and St. Luke’s have withdrawn from US News’ best hospitals list. Will others follow? July 6, 2023. (PDF here)
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STAT+. From ‘Jeopardy!’ to Politico, the PBM ad wars are taking over D.C. July 6, 2023. (PDF here)
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STAT. Malaria cases in Florida and Texas: Here’s what you need to know. June 30, 2023.
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STAT. ‘We fail people’: New data on disparities in Medicaid access to opioid addiction treatment. June 23, 2023.
Essays and Op-Eds
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TIME. Ozempic Can’t Fix America’s Obesity Crisis. November 8, 2023.
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Newsweek. Oliver Anthony Offers New Song, Same Old Tune on Race and Obesity. September 12, 2023.
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Think Global Health. Rwanda’s Health-Care Success Holds Lessons for Others. May 17, 2023.
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Harvard Public Health. Global health must evolve beyond its reliance on humanitarian aid. April 12, 2023.
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STAT. Promises — and pitfalls — of ChatGPT-assisted medicine. February 1, 2023.
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Metro UK. I ran for my life from what I thought was an active shooter – it taught me a painful lesson about the US. October 20, 2022.
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Newsweek. It's Not About the Sentence, It's How We Prevent the Next Parkland. October 17, 2022.
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The Scientist. Splashing Cold Water on Poop Transplants for Weight Loss. September 1, 2022.
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Undark. The United States’ Unvarnished Cruelty in Afghanistan. August 25, 2022.
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JoySauce. I Got My First Hair Cut at Age 17. August 18, 2022.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Expect more supply chain shortages in things we need. June 28, 2022.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The 'Scopes Monkey Trial' didn’t solve anything, neither will debates on parental rights. May 14, 2022.
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