My latest feature JAMA Despite the dire headline, I tried to highlight solutions. Thanks Paul Adamson MD MPH, drklausner, Yonatan Grad Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Katherine Hsu Mass. Public Health, CDC & CARB-X for passion & perspectives, and to jenabbasi for edits. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Fascinating! Any relation to earlier research by Asya Rolls that I covered for Quanta Magazine? Ruslan Medzhitov Prof. Kevin J. Tracey, MD quantamagazine.org/new-science-sh…

Great article in @JAMA by Esther Wei-Yun Landhuis shedding light on the urgent need for new #antibiotics to fight drug-resistant #gonorrhoea 🦠 GARDP's pioneering work on zoliflodacin offers hope. But collaboration will be crucial in tackling #AMR jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

After writing an Undark Magazine feature on #PANDAS, it's great to see this recent The Economist piece expand on the theme that some mental health conditions may have biological roots — and thus could be treated as medical rather than psychiatric illnesses economist.com/science-and-te…

Love this Tradeoffs episode about a JohnsHopkinsNursing program w/ a radically sensible approach to US #PrimaryCare - bring care directly to people & focus on prevention over crisis management Dan Gorenstein Leslie Walker

My latest for x_x on fascinating nature study by Hao Jin NIAID News, Charles Zuker Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute et al, w/ insights from Ruslan Medzhitov Yale Department of Immunobiology, Steve Liberles Harvard Medical School. Thanks Hannah Waters for assigning & editing! quantamagazine.org/the-brainstem-…

While fretting about being told to start clear liquid diet >24 hrs(!!) before my procedure (first time🙄), I found this. Benjamin Lebwohl, is this becoming standard of care? statnews.com/2024/03/19/col…

Among many topics discussed by Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, this stood out: "When #PublicHealth is working, it's invisible." Creates interesting challenge for journalists/storytellers: How to find, pitch & report on these "invisible" victories Pls share examples of such reporting!

Honored to speak about some of my reporting on contested illnesses/treatments. Pondering themes of trust and intuition — in journalism & the practice of medicine

What this article misses on why many docs are not recommending yearly/twice-a-year/continuous infusion of COVID vaccines is we have yet to see a RCT of any of those interventions in COVID immune populations. If you want more folks to rec, do the trial jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Helluva reporting job by Sara Talpos!

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health proudly introduces the inaugural Kovler Prize for Trust in Life Science Journalism. The award honors an individual who has significantly increased the public’s awareness of and trust in life science through their distinguished

A good reminder for me too 😉

A ~1,500-word riff on how #jazz #drumming could help my #journalism! Thanks to Katharine Gammon for encouraging me to write this, and to Rina Shaikh-Lesko and Jacqui Banaszynski for edits niemanstoryboard.org/stories/music-…

Fabulous talk by Esther Wei-Yun Landhuis on kids and invisible illness at Stanford Medicine & the Muse Big Ideas in Medicine conference. Caring for kids with PANS/PANDAS changed my career as an anesthesiologist. Glad to hear more discussion around inflammation and psychiatric symptoms.

TRUST is a big theme these days—at an upcoming National Association of Science Writers (NASW) plenary, and at last weekend's Stanford Big Ideas in Medicine Conference conference, where I urged physicians, researchers, entrepreneurs & other thought leaders to be candid in published stories about what's broken in healthcare

Really interesting story by Jyoti Madhusoodanan on behavioral science to motivate #PublicHealth decisions. Makes so much sense. We think we're rational & data-driven, but so much of human behavior is rooted in social & environmental cues. undark.org/2024/08/28/nud…