Tag: science writing
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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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Interview with Me in The Open Notebook
So happy to end the year on such a positive note with this interview feature in the prestigious The Open Notebook site, an incredible resource for science journalists or any journalist who covers health, animals, environment, etc. I so appreciated that Skyler Ware asked such smart questions about how I reported around the dearth of…
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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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Interview with Me on the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC)!
Well this is exciting! I was so honored to be interviewed on The Science Show with the redoubtable Robyn Williams of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)! Really proud of this one; something about being interviewed by someone with 50 years’ experience in broadcast brought out my best. I met up with Robyn at his home…
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Health Storytelling at Emory University
I had a wonderful conversation with renown journalist Maryn McKenna, as a part of the Emory University Health Storytelling series. It was livestreamed and is also available to watch in the YouTube video above.
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How Breastfeeding Prevents Breast Cancer for Nature
In my first piece for Nature, I was assigned an embargoed study (it hadn’t published yet) and had to put this story together over a weekend. I was able to speak with a principal researcher, Shirene Loi as she was on her way to Berlin for the prestigious ESMO conference, where she was presenting her…
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Not Every Women’s Midlife Health Issue is Perimenopause for New Scientist
The first of a couple of feature stories based on my book for New Scientist, this piece analyzes how both doctors and patients can make assumptions about healthcare for women in midlife. While it’s wonderful that perimenopause and menopause are receiving some (VERY!) long overdue attention, there’s also some pretty serious bandwagoning going on, with…
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