Tag: health
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“The Fight to Change Women’s Sports Uniforms” for CNN
This piece, my first-ever for CNN Sports, came out of a pitch related to my book, The Stronger Sex, that didn’t quite work out in another iteration many months back. So I retooled the focus to put it on the worldwide phenomenon of sports uniforms and how most of them aren’t made for female athlete’s…
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“Women have supercharged immune systems and we now know why” for New Scientist
My newest feature (which they pubbed w/out telling me, doh) for New Scientist is all about why and how women’s immune systems are so badass (there’s also a sidebar abt testosterone’s immune-dampening effects too.) It’s important to understand how hormones affect immune function in order to diagnose and create right treatments, including vaccines. Here’s how the piece…
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For Mental Floss: Fascinatingly Filthy Victorian London
The last piece I published in 2015 was also one of my favorites. I covered how a public health crisis in London, incorrectly attributed to miasma, ended up saving lives (even though the science was wrong!).
Starre Julia Vartan 